ascii data

[Jean Pierre Arabonis]

Hi
    You need to write a script, for example somthing like

ret = read('/tmp/file.dat')
date = subwrd(ret , 1)
var1 = subwrd(ret , 2)
var2 = subwrd(ret , 3)

    and so on

You may need to put it in a while loop to read your entire file.
    Cheers
       JP



Michael Notaro wrote:

>Hello.  I have a basic grads question.  How can I read
>ascii formatted data into grads.  For example, if I have
>a file, research.dat, which looks like:
>
>1900 -1.02  3.40  -3.11
>1901  2.23  4.56  -4.00
>1902 etc...
>
>How do I read this in grads? I want the second column to
>be variable1, the third column to be variable2, etc, and
>each are a function of time only.
>
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>
>Another question.  If I have a netcdf file with data
>for variable(time), I get an error regarding the
>absence of a discernable X coordinate.  I created this
>data in NCL.  What is needed to allow grads to open it?
>
>-------
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
>
>

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