[gradsusr] printim error due to variable in filename
Joey Woodson
instantweathermaps at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 13:30:00 EDT 2011
Be warned that "a little longer" is about 5x the time.
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On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Arlindo da Silva <dasilva at alum.mit.edu>wrote:
>
>
> 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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