Writing Numerical Value on Screen

[Matt Georgescu]

Thanks Charles - you caught my mistake instantly (when i was capturing
'subwrd', I was not looking at the result garnered from 'sublin') - I kept
staring at the screen and just couldn't see it.

matt

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Charles Seman wrote:

> Matt,
>
> Are you displaying any variable after 'set gxout stat'? doing this will
> give you a "result" for "sublin"...
>
> Then if you use
> rec11 = sublin(result,11) --> extracts record 11 from "result"... does
> this contain the information you want?
>
> and if you change
> word = subwrd(result,2)
> to
> word = subwrd(rec11,2) --> extracts word 2 from record 11 from
> "result"... note, we use the "rec11" from the "sublin" extraction...
> does this contain the information you want?
>
> I hope this helps,
> Chuck
>
> Matt Georgescu wrote:
>> Fellow GrADS users, i have what i presume to be a simple question, yet i
>> can't figure it out.
>>
>> i perform a graphical calculation. i then set gxout stat to pull some
>> statistics out - what i want to do, is simply pull a number from the 'set
>> gxout' output, and write it as text to the same graphical page where i
>> drew my map.
>>
>> after i draw my map, i invoke this:
>> 'set gxout stat'
>> val = sublin(result,11)
>> word = subwrd(result,2)
>> 'draw string 7.75 0.4 Domain Avg = 'word
>>
>> the last line doesn't actually print my numerical result 'word'. I
>> imagine
>> that this is because GrADS reads 'word' as a character ... how can i get
>> around this?
>>
>> thanks,
>> matt
>
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