Re: ascii file problems when reading: Summary

[antonio rodriguez <arv@xxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

The solution given by Steve is just the one I needed. Before this I've
tried to do the ascii tricks that comes in the manual, those of using
soft links to rename the file, but I needed to copy and paste from the
original file and wasn't a clever solution.

Thanks a LOT!

cheers,

Antonio



----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Hankin" <hankin@pmel.noaa.gov>
To: <arv@ono.com>
Cc: "Michael Spillane" <spillane@pmel.noaa.gov>; "Ansley Manke"
<ansley@pmel.noaa.gov>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: ascii file problems when reading


> Hi Antonio,
>
> At a guess, the problem is that the file has inherited the use of
> CarriageReturn and LineFeed that is inappropriate for your system.
This
> happens sometimes when ASCII files are attached to emails and saved
between
> Unix and Windows systems.
>
> Instead of FILE you can also try the more recent and powerful COLUMNS
> command in Ferret (alias for "SET DATA/FORM=delimited").  For the file
you
> have described it should be sufficient to issue
>
>      yes? COLUMNS my_file.dat
>      yes? LIST V1
>
>     - steve
>
> =============
>
> arv@ono.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've read the manual pages and mail archives about this issue but
I'm
> > still having problems when reading my data, wich is a very simple
file
> > of one variable (wind, m/s)(one column) and 200 monthly
observations.
> > I've done the following:
> >
> > >file/var="wind" wind.txt
> > >show data
> > currently SET data sets:
> > 1> ./wind.txt  (default)
> > name     title                    I         J         K       L
> > WIND     WIND                     1:20480   ...       ...     ...
> >
> > But couldn't plot wind, because I get:
> >
> > Success
> >  **TMAP ERR:
> >       Last or next-to-last record read: 5.3
> >
> > So I've tried:
> >
> > >define axis/t="16-jan-1985:12":"16-dec-2000:12"/np=228 twind
> > >define grid/t=twind gwind
> > >file/var=wind/grid=gwind wind.txt
> >
> > >show data
> >  currently SET data sets:
> >  1> ./wind.txt  (default)
> >  name     title                I         J         K         L
> >  WIND     WIND                ...       ...       ...       1:228
> >
> > >show grid wind
> >  GRID GWIND
> >  name       axis         # pts   start                end
> >  normal    X
> >  normal    Y
> >  normal    Z
> >  TWIND     TIME          228 r   16-JAN-1985 12:00    16-DEC-2000
12:00
> >
> > But again same problem when plotting or listing
> >
> > Any hints appreciated
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Antonio Rodriguez
>
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>
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>
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