[gradsusr] printim error due to variable in filename

Sun Sep 4 13:22:11 EDT 2011

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Joe Moore <joe at wxjoe.com> wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Thanks so much - I didn't even notice this. I thought I was going crazy!
>
>
 BTW, since you are using an opengrads build, trying replacing "printim"
with "gxyat" in your script for better quality images. Unless you have a
performance critical application, the fact that gxyat takes a little longer
may not matter.

     Arlindo

-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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