Re: [ferret_users] Two questions regarding repeat command

["C. Shaji" <cshaji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ansley,
Thank you for the suggestions, which I incorporated and now the code is
working fine.

C. Shaji.

On Fri, October 16, 2009 9:49 pm, Ansley Manke said:
> Hello,
> To access data for all of the months in a single loop, we need to put a
> 0 in front of the month for months 1 through 9.  Define a symbol with
> the month number, and redefine it with the extra 0 if the month is less
> than 10.  This same symbol can be used to name the output postscript file.
>
> Note that PPL CLSPLT is used after finishing the plot commands (whatever
> they are) to close the plot so it is ready for conversion to postscript
> with Fprint.  Another way to handle this would be to name the metafiles
> with a command
> set mode metafile metafile($imon).plt, and then convert them to
> postscript after exiting Ferret.
>
> repeat/range=1:12:1/name=m \
> (define symbol imon = `m`; \
>  if `m lt 10` then define symbol imon = 0`m`; \
>  use "http://path/month($imon)_combined.hdf"; \
>  set mode meta; plot variable; ppl clsplt;\
>  sp Fprint -o "/DATA/month($imon)_combined_sst.ps" metafile.plt;\
> \)
>
>
>
> C. Shaji wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I have two questions on the usage of repeat command.
>>
>> 1) I want to access 12 monthly HDF data files.
>> The following works fine for me for the first 01 to 09 files, and then
>> 10
>> to 12 files.
>>
>> repeat/range=1:5:1/name=m \ !months 1,2,3,4,5.
>>   (use
>> "http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nph-dods/pathfinder/Version5.0_Climatologies/Monthly/Combined/month0`m`_combined.hdf";;
>> \)
>>
>> Can someone suggest me what additional info I should need to access all
>> 12
>> files 01,02,..,09,10,11,12 using the repeat command?
>>
>> 2) Inside the loop I also generate the plots and want to save the
>> figures
>> as "psotscript" files.
>>
>> The following is working for me outside the loop, but within the loop
>> shows error.
>>
>> Fprint -o "/DATA/month0`m`_combined_sst.ps" metafile.plt !to create ps
>> file.
>>
>> Can someone suggest me the correct usage?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> C. Shaji.
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