Hi Ferret users, I would like to compare monthly climatological data calculated in Ferret with data from external ascii file. - in Ferret, according to my calculation, I got the following data for climatological precipitation : yes? list pclim 16-JAN / 1: 16.7 15-FEB / 2: 59.3 17-MAR / 3: 41.8 16-APR / 4: 82.5 16-MAY / 5: 206.4 16-JUN / 6: 252.3 16-JUL / 7: 438.7 16-AUG / 8: 399.4 15-SEP / 9: 271.1 16-OCT / 10: 70.7 15-NOV / 11: 10.2 16-DEC / 12: 1.0 - now I want to read ascii data from the following file p.dat # L p1 1 16.6 2 15.8 3 32.5 4 68.2 5 184.7 6 388.7 7 578.6 8 490.0 9 301.3 10 97.2 11 16.1 12 12.2 Then I used following commands: yes? file/skip=1/var="mp p1" p.dat yes? list p1 VARIABLE : P1 FILENAME : p.dat SUBSET : 12 points (X) 1 / 1: 16.6 2 / 2: 15.8 3 / 3: 32.5 4 / 4: 68.2 5 / 5: 184.7 6 / 6: 388.7 7 / 7: 578.6 8 / 8: 490.0 9 / 9: 301.3 10 / 10: 97.2 11 / 11: 16.1 12 / 12: 12.2 Then I would like to assign the following dates ( 16-JAN , 15-FEB, and so on) to these new data. What's the best way for doing that ? Thanks a lot for your advice. -- Francois DELCLAUX ------------------------------------------------------------ UMR HydroSciences Montpellier Universite Montpellier II - Place Eugene Bataillon Case courrier MSE 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 FRANCE http://www.hydrosciences.org/ mailto: delclaux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel : (33) (0)4 67 14 90 11 Fax : (33) (0)4 67 14 47 74 ------------------------------------------------------------ |