Hi Patrick,
Just for all our reference, the pieces of documentation are these: For
reading Delimited files:
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/documentation/users-guide/data-set-basics/ASCII-DATA#Chapter2-delimited_files
And for datatype in Ascii files:
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/documentation/users-guide/commands-reference/SET#_VPINDEXENTRY_1617
The /TYPE=EURODATE specifier works correctly for data of the form
yy-mm-dd or yyyy-mm-dd but it looks as if the form including both date
and time does not. You can read your data as follows:
yes? set dat/form=delimited/type="eurodate,time"/delim="\b" file1.txt
yes? list v1,v2
DATA SET: ./file1.txt
X: 0.5 to 9.5
Column 1: V1 is V1 (days)(Julian days since 1-Jan-1900)
Column 2: V2 is V2 (hours)(Time of day)
V1 V2
1 / 1: 39612. 18.26
2 / 2: 39612. 18.59
3 / 3: 39612. 18.92
4 / 4: 39612. 19.25
5 / 5: 39612. 19.57
6 / 6: 39612. 19.90
7 / 7: 39612. 20.23
8 / 8: 39612. 20.56
9 / 9: 39612. 20.89
Then you could form a variable,
yes? let datetime = v1 + v2/24
Thank you for writing. We will at least fix up the documentation so it
reflects what you can do!