How to get control parameter in .ctl file

[Henrique Barbosa]

Boyin,

Try

'set t last'

it should set time to last possible value.
Than you can make

'q dims'
lin=sublin(result,5)
val=subwrd(lin,9)

to acces the value of the last possible time inside your scritp.

cheers,
Henrique

On 6/8/06, Boyin Huang <boyin.huang at noaa.gov> wrote:
> Assuming I have a gs control file for 5-day average data file, which
> contains 2001 points data in time (But the number, 2001 in example, is
> changing from time to time):
>
> tdef 2001  linear 3jan1979 5dy
>
> I only want to process last 10 average data points, nothing else.
>
> This means I need to know the number of valid tdef.
>
> What should I do? Is there any system variable could be used directly
> since it should be available after open statement?
>
> Thanks
>