writing to a file

[Charles Seman]

Krishnaraj,

In a script, try something like:

'set t 1' * or whatever time you want from the GrADS input file...
'q time'
date = subwrd(result,3)

or if you want the actual date (see also Unix "man date", GrADS "read"
and other functions at
http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/script.html#intrinsic):

'!echo `date` > date_tmp'
result = read(date_tmp)
date = sublin(result,2)
say date
say subwrd(date,1)
'!rm date_tmp'
* or (there are other formats too...)
'!echo `date +%D` > date_tmp'
result = read(date_tmp)
date = sublin(result,2)
say date
'!rm date_tmp'

Then you can use "subwrd" and/or "substr" to get parts of the "date"...

I hope this helps,
Chuck

Krishnaraj Santhanam wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to write some variables to a text  file.  I would like to
> have have output file naming convention with the date format included in
> it.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Some thing like this
>                    dum1=sublin(result,5)
>                     date=subwrd(dum1,6)
>                 write(out_"date".out,date)
> Does anyone know how to do this.
> Thanks for your time,
> Krishna

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