<div dir="ltr">Hi there,<div><br></div><div>I am plotting shapefile data from a shapefile. Two of the variables that show up when doing an ncl_filedump have 'none' in front of the names, meaning that ncl does not know the type, be it string, float, integer, etc. When I tried to grab the variable, not surprisingly I got the error message,</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">fatal:Variable <Fcst_Date> in file <610temp_latest> does not have a recognized type: cannot get value</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Is there a way to get around this and retrieve the variable? Or am I stuck? I tried to look online to see if others had this issue but was not able to find anything.</font></span></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">-- </font><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72" style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Andrew Kren
Meteorologist 
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Raleigh, North Carolina 27606
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mailto: <a href="mailto:andrew.kren@noaa.gov" target="_blank">andrew.kren@noaa.gov</a></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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