Re: plotting data in a separate directory

[Helge Avlesen <avle@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jaison Kurian wrote
| 	yes? use "/home/DATA/mydata.dat"    ! full path
|                                             !   or
|         yes? use "./DATA/mydata.dat"        ! relative to current dir.
|
|
|   To use your present sript, define a new variable like;
|
|         yes? define symbol qts = \"

nope, doesn't work... your suggestion is the same as just using double
quotes directly which I tried before.

ferret reads the data ok, but the let command adds a couple of " that
leads to a failure later.

-- 
Helge



/avle@tindved: > cat plot.jnl 
define symbol DIR=data
define symbol LABEL=test2
define symbol qts = \"
define symbol RESULTS=($qts).\/($DIR)\/($LABEL).data($qts)
define symbol VGRID=($qts).\/($DIR)\/($LABEL)-grid.data($qts)
define axis/x=1:2:1 xaxis
define axis/y=1:2:1 yaxis
define grid/x=xaxis/y=yaxis grid1
file/var=xcoo,zcoo/grid=grid1 ($VGRID)
let xg=xcoo[d=($VGRID)]
let zg=zcoo[d=($VGRID)]
file/var=dill,sal,temp/grid=grid1 ($RESULTS)
shade dill,xg,yg
/avle@tindved: > cat data/test2.data 
1 35.1 12.1
2 35.2 12.2
3 35.3 12.3
4 35.4 12.4
/avle@tindved: > cat data/test2-grid.data 
1 1
2 1
1 2
2 2
/avle@tindved: > ferret
appending ferret path
        NOAA/PMEL TMAP
        FERRET v5.53  
        Linux(g77) 2.4.x - 09/26/03
        31-Mar-04 15:29     

yes? go plot
define symbol DIR=data
define symbol LABEL=test2
define symbol qts = \"
define symbol RESULTS=($qts).\/($DIR)\/($LABEL).data($qts)
 !-> define symbol RESULTS="./data/test2.data"
define symbol VGRID=($qts).\/($DIR)\/($LABEL)-grid.data($qts)
 !-> define symbol VGRID="./data/test2-grid.data"
define axis/x=1:2:1 xaxis
define axis/y=1:2:1 yaxis
define grid/x=xaxis/y=yaxis grid1
file/var=xcoo,zcoo/grid=grid1 ($VGRID)
 !-> SET DATA/EZ/var=xcoo,zcoo/grid=grid1 "./data/test2-grid.data"
let xg=xcoo[d=($VGRID)]
 !-> DEFINE VARIABLE xg=xcoo[d="./data/test2-grid.data"]
let zg=zcoo[d=($VGRID)]
 !-> DEFINE VARIABLE zg=zcoo[d="./data/test2-grid.data"]
file/var=dill,sal,temp/grid=grid1 ($RESULTS)
 !-> SET DATA/EZ/var=dill,sal,temp/grid=grid1 "./data/test2.data"
shade dill,xg,yg
 **ERROR: unknown data set: D="./data/test2-grid.data"
shade dill,xg,yg
Command file, command group, or REPEAT execution aborted
yes? show data
     currently SET data sets:
    1> ./data/test2-grid.data
 name     title                             I         J         K         L
 XCOO     XCOO                             1:2       1:2       ...       ...
 ZCOO     ZCOO                             1:2       1:2       ...       ...
 
    2> ./data/test2.data  (default)
 name     title                             I         J         K         L
 DILL     DILL                             1:2       1:2       ...       ...
 SAL      SAL                              1:2       1:2       ...       ...
 TEMP     TEMP                             1:2       1:2       ...       ...
 
yes?