<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Dave and Dennis for your suggestions. I followed the examples and created a script to read the file I sent earlier, but it seems to be I am still getting some header information in the column I am trying to extract. Attached are output and script that was used, any suggestions to overcome this issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Debasish.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <<a href="mailto:dave.allured@noaa.gov">dave.allured@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"><div>Debasish, that is a CSV file with header lines. Use <b>asciiread</b> to read the entire file as strings. Then use string parsing functions such as <b>str_split_csv</b> and/or <b>str_get_field</b> to get individual columns. Examples <b>csv_3.ncl</b> and <b>csv4_ncl</b> are close to what you want to do.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/read_csv.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/read_csv.shtml</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 12:38 PM Debasish Hazra via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk@mailman.ucar.edu</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"><div>Hi, </div><div>I am trying to read station data with header and column of data, with COlumn lengths are not equal in files and have attached one example file in the attachment. Can someone help to point what ascii read command to be used to extract time and column information from these files.</div><div>Thanks</div><div>Debasish.</div></div>
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