Re: ASCII questions

[Steve Hankin <Steven.C.Hankin@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

I believe that if you designate the ASCII data as /FORMAT=delimited (a.k.a. the
"COLUMNS" alias), that numerical fields present in the file as "******" will be
interpreted as missing values automatically.  (So, too, will any other non-parsable
numeric fields.)  Of course, there will need to be some kind of delimiter
separating the "******" fields from their neighbors.

    - steve

P.S. Regrets that I have not been able to supploy the detailed syntax -- am offline
at the moment.

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Ansley Manke wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >