simple script problem

[Dave Allured]

Barry,

For one thing, your use of spaces in the printim command is
incorrect.  Spaces are significant *inside* the quote marks, but not
*outside*.  Look closely.  As written, each underscore will have
spaces around it before the printim command is executed.  This does
not construct a very nice filename, and I would expect Grads to gag
here.  HTH.

--Dave

Barry wrote:
> HI all
>
> I'm having another (what must be) simple problem;
> I am attempting my first grads script (.gs) and I can't
> seem to get the script to interpret my alphanumeric
> assignments.
>
> What I am trying to do is run a plot 9 times- the binary
> file has 9 times of day in it (ignore the commented out statements)...
> I simply want to write a title for each one and create a postscript
> output file with a unique name indicating what the plot is.
>
> Can someone tell me what is wrong- again, the documentation on scripts
> has nothing like what I am trying to do.
>
> Thanks folks!
>
> barry
>
> 'open test.ctl'
> 'set display grey white'
> 'set lat 15 40'
> 'set lon -180 -140'
> 'set cint 5'
> stat = "average"
> season = "winter"
> type = "full sky"
> *s = 1
> *while (s < 6)
>
> *if (s = 1) season = winter ; endif
> *if (s = 2) season = spring ; endif
> *if (s = 3) season = summer ; endif
> *if (s = 4) season = fall   ; endif
> *if (s = 5) season = year   ; endif
>
> hr = 1
> while (hr < 10)
>
> if (hr = 1) hour = "00Z" ; endif
> if (hr = 2) hour = "03Z" ; endif
> if (hr = 3) hour = "06Z" ; endif
> if (hr = 4) hour = "09Z" ; endif
> if (hr = 5) hour = "12Z" ; endif
> if (hr = 6) hour = "15z" ; endif
> if (hr = 7) hour = "18z" ; endif
> if (hr = 8) hour = "21z" ; endif
> if (hr = 9) hour = "day" ; endif
>
> *'set t 's' '
> 'set lev 'hr' '
> 'display stat'
> 'draw title 'stat'  'season'  'hour'  'type''
> 'printim 'stat' _ 'season' _ 'hour' _ 'type' .ps'
> 'clear'
> *'close 1'
>
> hr = hr + 1
> endwhile
>
> *s = s + 1
> *endwhile