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<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Hi Alan,<br>Try downloading EditPlus (<a href="https://www.editplus.com">https://www.editplus.com</a>).<br>I use it all the time for building/editing Grads scripts.<br>It will expose any funky characters in your script (including hidden tabs) and provides line numbers. <br><br>I think it's a free download.<br>Hope that helps,<br>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 26, 2019 4:06:23 PM PDT, Alan Robock <robock@envsci.rutgers.edu> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>Dear Jeff and Bill,</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, but it still did not work. I did not have any tabs to start with.
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<p>It turns out I first wrote this in Word and then pasted into a text file on the computer. The minus sign was converted into a long - sign in Word, and grads did not like that. I also made sure all the ' were not the fancy ones. Then it ran.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Alan
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/26/19 3:53 PM, Bill Reilly wrote:<br>
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<font face="Arial">Alan:<br>
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Tabs are not allowed... Replace the tabs with 2 spaces... Try this:</font><br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">i = 1<br>
tp = 9.8<br>
while ( i <= 8 )<br>
?? tp = tp ??? ( i - 1 ) * 1.2<br>
?? bot = tp ??? 1.2<br>
?? j = 1<br>
?? left = 0.5<br>
?????? while ( j <= 5 )<br>
?????? left = left + ( j - 1 ) * 1.5<br>
?????? rt = left + 1.5<br>
?????? ???set vpage' left rt?? bot tp<br>
?????? e = (i-1)*5 + j<br>
?????? ???set E??? e<br>
?????? 'set grads off'<br>
?????? ???d ensmn???e ???- tale5yrmn.2???<br>
?????? ???draw title DPLE ensemble anomaly??? e<br>
?????? j = j + 1<br>
?? endwhile<br>
?? i = i + 1<br>
endwhile</font><br>
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<font face="Arial">Try this and see if it works.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Bill</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/06/2019 23:27, Alan Robock wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi,
I am having trouble with scripting language.?? My script is to write
postage-stamp size maps on one page, and I call it postagescript.?? When
I try to run it I get:
ga-> run postagescript
Syntax Error
?? Error occurred on line 4
?? In file postagescript
Here is the script:
i = 1
tp = 9.8
while ( i <= 8 )
???? tp = tp ??? ( i - 1 ) * 1.2
???? bot = tp ??? 1.2
???? j = 1
???? left = 0.5
???? while ( j <= 5 )
???????? left = left + ( j - 1 ) * 1.5
???????? rt = left + 1.5
???????? ???set vpage' left rt?? bot tp
???????? e = (i-1)*5 + j
???????? ???set E??? e
???????? 'set grads off'
???????? ???d ensmn???e ???- tale5yrmn.2???
???????? ???draw title DPLE ensemble anomaly??? e
???????? j = j + 1
???? endwhile
???? i = i + 1
endwhile
Help.
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