<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Variable names in GrADS and in GrADS scripts cannot be more than 16 characters long. --Jennifer<div><br><div><div>On Feb 13, 2013, at 11:43 PM, Jeff Duda wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello,<div>I know there is a limit to the length of the name of a script variable, but is there an analogous limit to the name of a field defined in Grads? For example,</div><div><br></div><div>'define tave = ave(t,z=1,z=30)'</div>
<div><br></div><div>Would there be a problem if I did something like</div><div><br></div><div>'define thisvariableisvalidat300mbandmaybetoolong = hgtprs(lev=300)'</div><div><br></div><div>even though I followed the other rules regarding naming of fields?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jeff Duda<br><div><div><br></div>-- <br>Jeff Duda<br>Graduate research assistant<br>University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology<br>Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms<br>
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