dat file does not exit

[Davide Sacchetti]

you could use what "open" returns (variable "result", available only in
a script context)

Bye bye
Davide


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:27 +0100, Meredith Croke wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am trying to produce a .dat file of 15 days worth of data, each with
> forecast hours out to 384.  The problem I am running into is, I am missing a
> few of these files due to server problems, when the script can't find the
> data file I get a segmentation fault and grads closes.  Is there a way I can
> write in my script after the open command that if the file does not exist,
> skip and move onto the next forecast hour?  I tried creating fake data files
> with nothing in them in the hopes I would get either some kindof text output
> or 9999 in my tab delimited file but I just got an I/O error and the script
> stopped running.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Meredith
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