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A stupid question: when I try with
 dat = write('output.txt',variable,append)
GRADS answer write not a variale or function name
(I'm an absolute newbie, of course).


On 9/12/06, Stegert <stegert at ifm.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> Dear Francesco,
> I think the best way is simple ASCII data to be opened by excel (and ay
> other).
> With
> dat = write('output.txt',variable,append)
> you can write the content of 'variable' into 'output.txt'.
> The append enables appending the data to file.
> So for a whole matrix you can do it in a loop of:
>
> while (counter < number_of_lines)
>  var2 = ''
>  while (line < number_of_colums)
>    var2 = var2 ' ' var_to_add
>  endwhile
>  dat = write('output.txt',var2,append)
>  counter = counter + 1
> endwhile
>
> Here, you permanently add values to 'var2' and write them into the file.
> E.g. var_to_add could be
>  'd pressure'  [when x,y,z,t fixed]
>  var_to_add = subwrd(result,4)
> and with each 'number_of_...' the dimensions in a GrADS field could be
> changed...
> With this writing a 2d field from GrADS to ASCII (and read in excel).
>
> Hope that helped
> Christoph
>
> Francesco D. schrieb:
>
> > Hi to all
> > I want to say i it's possible to output a data table that con be read
> > from excel?
> > You could help me in this problem?
>
> --
> Christoph Stegert
> Intitute  for Oceanography - (ZMK/ZMAW alliance member)
> University of Hamburg, GER - Ecological Modelling Group
> Bundesstr.53 20146 Hamburg - +49-40-42838-7486 - Rm 348
>