<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Keren,<br></div>You have a lot of extra spaces floating around in your commands. As far as I know, when you're inserting script variables into a command in a grads script, you need to be very explicit with the formatting of the command. In other words, the spaces around your 'lat', 'lon', 'xloc', and 'yloc' may be causing the syntax error. I recommend removing those spaces and trying again. For example, change<br><br>"draw mark "flag " "xloc " "yloc " 0.1"
<br><br></div>into <br><br></div>"draw mark "flag" "xloc" "yloc" 0.1"<br><br></div>Jeff<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Keren Rosado - NOAA Affiliate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keren.rosado@noaa.gov" target="_blank">keren.rosado@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Jeff,<br></div><div><br>I already used the q w2xy and I don't see any error. <br><br><br></div><div>Here is the rest of the script <br><br>file ="lightning_from00z29April.004.txt"
<br>colors="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13"
<br>ccount=0
<br> <br>rc=1
<br>while (rc != 2)
<br> data=read(file)
<br> rc=sublin(data,1)
<br> if (rc != 2)
<br> line=sublin(data,2)
<br> chk=substr(line,1,10)
<br> if (chk != "----------")
<br> <br> lat=subwrd(line,1)
<br> lon=subwrd(line,2)
<br> flag=subwrd(line,3)
<br> color=subwrd(line,4)
<br> <br> <br> "q w2xy "lon " " lat
<br> xloc=subwrd(result,3)
<br> yloc=subwrd(result,6)
<br> name=subwrd(ccount,1)
<br> <br> "set line "color" 1 5"
<br> "set lat -20 20"
<br> "set lon -40 25"
<br> "draw mark "flag " "xloc " "yloc " 0.1"
<br>* "draw mark 1 " xloc " "yloc " 0.06"
<br> else
<br> ccount=ccount+1
<br> endif
<br> endif
<br>endwhile
<br> <br> <br>'set string 1 tc 1'
<br>'set strsiz .30'<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">----<br>Keren Rosado<br>PhD Candidate/Howard University/NOAA EPP GRTSP Fellow<br>Intern/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC <br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">5830 University Research CT</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Cubicle 2795</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">College Park, MD 20740</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Tel: </span><a href="tel:%28301%29-683-3763" value="+13016833763" target="_blank">(301)-683-3816</a><br>Cel: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">(407)-621-1676 </u><span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Email: <a href="mailto:Keren.Rosado@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Keren.Rosado@noaa.gov</a><a href="mailto:Bin.Liu@noaa.gov" target="_blank"></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Jeff Duda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffduda319@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Keren,<br><br>The error tells you what the problem is. You must have a "draw mark" command somewhere in your script that has a syntax error in it. You can use the grads documentation index to determine values of the various arguments to that function. I suspect you have an error in your x and y arguments in the function call. The x and y arguments need to be in real page units, not world coordinates. You'll need to use the 'query (position)' functions to translate between world coordinates, grid coordinates, and page coordinates. A commonly used one is 'q w2xy', which would convert world coordinates to real page coordinates.<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Jeff Duda<br></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Keren Rosado - NOAA Affiliate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keren.rosado@noaa.gov" target="_blank">keren.rosado@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The text file is big but from what I can see is all numbers. <br><br> 11.228 -73.969 1<br> 13.983 5.299 1<br> 13.790 -14.934 1<br> 22.645 -51.073 1<br> 11.254 -73.973 1<br> 6.508 -61.990 1<br> 11.405 4.011 1<br> 29.012 -59.311 1<br> 11.262 -74.027 1<br> 10.631 -68.972 1<br> 11.270 -73.941 1<br> 11.341 -73.955 1<br> 11.295 -73.604 1<br> 11.269 -73.595 1<br> 11.231 -73.537 1<br> 11.254 -73.611 1<br><br><br></div>When I type "run <a href="http://namescript.gs" target="_blank">namescript.gs</a>" I get the following error:<br><br> DRAW error: Syntax is DRAW MARK marktype x y size<br>DRAW error: Syntax is DRAW MARK marktype x y size<br>DRAW error: Syntax is DRAW MARK marktype x y size<br>DRAW error: Syntax is DRAW MARK marktype x y size<br>DRAW error: Syntax is DRAW MARK marktype x y size<br>DRAW error: Syntax is DRAW MARK marktype x y size<br><div><div><br></div><div>But when I run the script line by line the first error I get is the one I send in the first email.<br></div><div><br><br></div><div>Thanks<br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">----<br>Keren Rosado<br>PhD Candidate/Howard University/NOAA EPP GRTSP Fellow<br>Intern/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC <br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">5830 University Research CT</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Cubicle 2795</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">College Park, MD 20740</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Tel: </span><a href="tel:%28301%29-683-3763" value="+13016833763" target="_blank">(301)-683-3816</a><br>Cel: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="tel:%28407%29-621-1676" value="+14076211676" target="_blank">(407)-621-1676</a> </u><span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Email: <a href="mailto:Keren.Rosado@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Keren.Rosado@noaa.gov</a><a href="mailto:Bin.Liu@noaa.gov" target="_blank"></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br></span><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Jeff Duda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffduda319@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The snippet of script code you included isn't consistent with the output you included. I can't see from what you included what would be the cause of the error. Do you have non-alphanumeric characters in your text file? Otherwise I suspect you have a syntax error in your script somewhere else.<br><br></div>Jeff Duda<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Keren Rosado - NOAA Affiliate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keren.rosado@noaa.gov" target="_blank">keren.rosado@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello, <br><br></div>I am trying to open a .txt file in a .gs grads script without luck. <br></div><div>Grads version 2.0.1<br></div><div><br><br></div>This is what I have <br><div><br>'open dummy.ctl'<br>file = 'A20100826a.txt'<br>colors="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13"<br>ccount=0<br><br>rc=1<br>while (rc != 2)<br> data=read(file)<br> rc=sublin(data,1)<br> if (rc != 2)<br> line=sublin(data,2)<br> chk=substr(line,1,10)<br> if (chk != "----------")<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br></div><div> The code keeps going but the error is at the "file" line. <br><br></div><div>Here is the error <br>file = 'A20100826a.txt'<br>Syntax Error: Expected operand or '('<br> Error ocurred at column 1<br>DEFINE error: Invalid expression. <br><br></div><div>Thanks!<br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">----<br>Keren Rosado<br>PhD Candidate/Howard University/NOAA EPP GRTSP Fellow<br>Intern/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC <br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">5830 University Research CT</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cubicle 2795</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">College Park, MD 20740</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tel: </span><a href="tel:%28301%29-683-3763" value="+13016833763" target="_blank">(301)-683-3816</a><br>Cel: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="tel:%28407%29-621-1676" value="+14076211676" target="_blank">(407)-621-1676</a> </u><span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">Email: <a href="mailto:Keren.Rosado@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Keren.Rosado@noaa.gov</a><a href="mailto:Bin.Liu@noaa.gov" target="_blank"></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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