[gradsusr] printim error due to variable in filename

[Joe Moore]

Steve,

Thanks so much - I didn't even notice this. I thought I was going crazy!

-Joe

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Stephen McMillan <smcmillan at planalytics.com
> wrote:

> Hello Joe,
>
> Your time query is introducing a space into the "day" variable.  PRINTIM
> doesn't like spaces in the filename string.  Try this instead:
> day=substr(result, 11, 9)
>
> It should work with above change.
>
> Stephen McMillan
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Joe Moore <joe at wxjoe.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> I'm just getting started with GrADS and I'm still a beginner, but I'm
>> having a problem that I can't seem to resolve from reading the documentation
>> and searching online, including the archives of this mailing list.
>>
>> Problem: When using a variable in the filename to save the output, I'm
>> getting an error.
>>
>> Here's the relevant code:
>>
>> 'printim out/RTMA_TMP_'day'_'hr'.png'
>>
>> where I am defining the variable day and hour using the following:
>> 'q time'
>> hr=substr(result, 8, 2)
>> day=substr(result, 11, 10)
>>
>> The result of which, when I print as a string or in the title, comes out
>> to be 23 for the hour and 16AUG2011.
>>
>> Expect result: I should have a file output called
>> RTMA_TMP_16AUG2011_23.png
>>
>> What actually is happening: The file output is just called
>> RTMA_TMP_23AUG2011 (that's it- no .png) and when I run I get the following
>> error: PRINTIM error: Invalid option; ignored
>>
>> I've been able to sometimes get this to work, like if I put a few
>> characters (not including an underscore or period) in the output filename -
>> but I can't figure it out. I'd like to use either underscores, dashes or
>> periods to separate the variables in the output file name, and I've seen it
>> done in example scripts I've found on the web.
>>
>> Configuration: I am running OpenGrADS 2.0.a9.oga.1 on Ubuntu 11.04. The
>> data is coming from the RTMA grib2 from the NOAA NOMADS server. Here is my
>> full grads config info:
>> ga-> q config
>> Config: v2.0.a9.oga.1 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds
>> hdf5 opendap-grids,stn athena geotiff shapefile
>> Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.a9.oga.1
>> Copyright (c) 1988-2010 by Brian Doty and the
>> Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)
>> This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
>> See file COPYRIGHT for more information.
>>
>> Built Mon Oct  4 14:16:26 EDT 2010 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:
>>   o Built on a LITTLE ENDIAN machine
>>   o Athena Widget GUI ENABLED
>>   o Command line editing ENABLED
>>       http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
>>   o printim command for image output ENABLED
>>       http://www.zlib.net
>>       http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
>>       http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page
>>   o GRIB2 interface ENABLED
>>       http://www.ijg.org
>>       http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper
>>       http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2
>>       g2clib-1.1.8
>>   o NetCDF interface ENABLED
>>       http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf
>>       netcdf 4.1.1 of Jul 10 2010 23:36:25 $
>>   o OPeNDAP gridded data interface ENABLED
>>   o OPeNDAP station data interface ENABLED
>>       http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html
>>       libgadap 2.0.oga.1
>>   o HDF4 and HDF5 interfaces ENABLED
>>       http://hdfgroup.org
>>       HDF 4.2r3
>>       HDF5 1.8.4
>>   o GeoTIFF and KML/TIFF output ENABLED
>>       http://www.libtiff.org
>>       http://geotiff.osgeo.org
>>   o KML contour output ENABLED
>>   o Shapefile interface ENABLED
>>       http://shapelib.maptools.org
>>
>> For additional information please consult http://iges.org/grads
>>
>> Not sure if its needed, but here is also the code I am using:
>> http://pastebin.com/hHuXR6ae (There's a few comments and irrelevant
>> things as this has been my sandbox script to learn new things.)
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any and all assistance!
>>
>> -Joe Moore
>>
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