<div dir="ltr">Kathryn,<div><br></div><div>I don't see anything wrong with what you are showing, as the following (in a script) produces 1.12 0.047 0.05264 on screen...</div><div><br></div><div><div>xdif=1.12</div><div>xplot=0.047 </div><div>xdist=xplot*xdif</div><div>say xdif' 'xplot' 'xdist</div></div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps you're getting the error because you have no gridded file open prior to running?</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen McMillan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Kathryn Sellwood - NOAA Affiliate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathryn.sellwood@noaa.gov" target="_blank">kathryn.sellwood@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">I have defined 2 variables in a grads script which I would then like to multiply<div>to obtain a 3rd variable<br><div>xdif=1.12</div><div>xplot=0.047</div><div>xdist=xplot*xdif</div><div>I get the following error "Non-numeric args to numeric operation"</div><div>I have tried multiple ways to get this to work with no success ... guessing that it is commenting out "xdif" but I also tried putting * in quotes and that produced a similar error.</div></div><div>Any Ideas?</div><div>Thanks!</div></div>
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