computation using ascii data

[Charles Seman]

Suha,

 From the GrADS web page:
http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/script.html#intrinsic
----*|
read (/filename/)|*

This functions reads individual records from file |/filename/|. Repeated
calls must be made to read consecutive records. The result is a string
containing two lines: the first line is the return code, the 2nd line is
the record read from the file. The record may be a maximum of 80
characters. Use the |sublin| function to separate the result. Return
codes are:

      |0 - |ok
      |1 - |open error
      |2 - |end of file
      |8 - |file open for write
      |9 - |I/O error

Files are opened when the first call to read is made for a particular
file name. Files are closed when the execution of the script file
terminates (note that files remain open between function calls, etc).

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Is the "0" the "return code"?

I hope this helps,
Chuck
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suha aslam wrote:
> Hello grads users,
> I want to compute correlation between two parameters.
> Of which one parameter has to be calculated from a
> binary file and the second is a time series (column
> matrix) directly given as an ascii file. What is the
> method to read the ascii file and asign the
> consecutive lines (each values) as x1, x2, x3,
> .....xn. When i used the command read(file) and
> written it out (in a loop) to check whether it was
> read correctly, the output file shows 0 and the first
> value only. What could be wrong? Any idea?
> A help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Suha
>
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