<div dir="ltr">Has anyone found a possible workaround for reading a variable from a file (shapefile) in which the recognized type (none) is not known?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 12:50 PM Andrew Kren - NOAA Federal <<a href="mailto:andrew.kren@noaa.gov">andrew.kren@noaa.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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 style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span 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 style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span 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 style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span 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"><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
NOAA's National Weather Service
Raleigh Forecast Office
1005 Capability Drive, Suite 300
Raleigh, North Carolina 27606
voice: 919-326-1035
mailto: <a href="mailto:andrew.kren@noaa.gov" target="_blank">andrew.kren@noaa.gov</a></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><a href="http://www.weather.gov/rah" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.weather.gov/rah</span></a></pre></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/pix/AOML/50th01.png" width="420" height="65"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="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
NOAA's National Weather Service
Raleigh Forecast Office
1005 Capability Drive, Suite 300
Raleigh, North Carolina 27606
voice: 919-326-1035
mailto: <a href="mailto:andrew.kren@noaa.gov" target="_blank">andrew.kren@noaa.gov</a></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><a href="http://www.weather.gov/rah" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.weather.gov/rah</span></a></pre></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/pix/AOML/50th01.png" width="420" height="65"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>