<div dir="ltr">Have you verified that no additional characters or spaces are being input to the script? Try<div><br></div><div>say "_"region"_" to check that there are no extra spaces in region. Also, in your if statement, there does not appear to be a space in ='conus'. While I doubt that is the cause of the problem, insert a space there to check formatting.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 1:24 PM Tracey <<a href="mailto:tdorian10@gmail.com">tdorian10@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi Bill,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It still doesn't seem to work even when I take out the parentheses. Appreciate your suggestion though! Can GrADS handle argument strings in if/else statements?</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tracey</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 3:08 PM Bill Reilly <<a href="mailto:bill_reilly@compuserve.com" target="_blank">bill_reilly@compuserve.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Try taking out the parentheses () and see if it works.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#000000">The input string is being read
into the script correctly, as I've put a "</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">say
region" into the script right before the if statement and
it is correctly outputting "conus." So it seems to be the
actual if statement that is not working for some reason.</font></div>
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read into the script correctly. Then check to see if the if
block is being tripped by inserting print statements.
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi,</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I was
wondering if any GrADS users could help me with
this issue I am having. </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In
my GrADS script, I have:</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default">if (region ='conus')</div>
<div class="gmail_default"> 'set lat 25 58'</div>
<div class="gmail_default"> 'set lon 230 297'</div>
<div class="gmail_default">endif</div>
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<div>But the above lines are not working. When I
run the GrADS script, I input a "region" as an
argument. I want to say if the region is
"conus", then set the longitudes and latitudes
to these set numbers. No matter how I change
the quotations and the spaces, it doesn't seem
to be re-setting the latitudes and longitudes.
What am I doing wrong? </div>
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<div>Thank you,</div>
<div>Tracey</div>
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