Re: ASCII questions

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,
1) You'll need to edit your ascii file and put in a numeric value for 
the ******,  which must have resulted from a format overflow in the 
program that wrote the data.  Ferret uses Fortran formatting for reading 
ascii data, and like any fortran program, it will get a read error if it 
finds ******.  If you just do an edit on your file, and change all the 
****** to some numeric value then you can do the SET VAR/BAD= command in 
Ferret.

2) Use the LIST/FILE=/NOHEADER/FORMAT=  options for writing ASCII data 
in the form that you want. The /FORMAT= qualifier takes a fortran format 
as an argument and it will cause the coordinate labels to go away.

Ansley

Steve Guimond wrote:

> Hello Ferreters:
>   I have two questions:
> (1)  In my data, a missing value is denoted by "******".  How can I set
> this as the bad value flag?  I have tried numerous versions of 
> yes?set var/bad='******' file.dat          but it seems to not like characters
>
> (2)  How can I ouput my data to an ascii file with the same format (one
> column) as the way it was originally without having the messy netCDF
> heading at the top of the file?
>
> thanks.
>
> Stephen R. Guimond
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies 
>
>