[gradsusr] Plot first variable in ctl file when name is unknown

[Wesley Ebisuzaki - NOAA Federal]

Brian,

You can always edit the control file so that "var0_0_qqqccc" is replaced by
another
name such as "field1".  You can change the variable name before or after
making the idx file.  (However, you have keep the order of the variables.)

|  alt_g2ctl.pl <http://alt_g2ctl.pl> -sub "A" "B" but I haven't been able
to work

alt_g2ctl.pl is often used for files which have long variable names.
Think aerosols variables like:

  AEMFLXdaerosol=Dust_Drydaerosol_size_<2e+07daerosol_wavelength_<0clm

Unfortunately grads has a 15 (?) character limit for variable names.  The
-sub
option was an attempt to make shorter variable names.  However, people
have been editing the ctl files and I turned off the -sub option.

Wesley



On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Brian Gaze <brianw.gaze at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a way of plotting the first (or only) variable in a ctl file
> using a .gs if you don't know its name?
>
> For example, if the ctl contains one variable called var0_0_qqqccc is
> there a wildcard option like..
>
> d *
>
> Alternatively can the variable be renamed when the .ctl is created using
> alt_g2ctl.pl?
>
> I know there is alt_g2ctl.pl -sub "A" "B" but I haven't been able to work
> out a regex which would do something like...
>
>  alt_g2ctl.pl -sub "*.*" "Variable1"
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian
>
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