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Hi Alan, > > Hi guys, > I'm trying to import some data that I got from ncdc. > http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/CDO/cdomarinedata.cmd > There are several issues with it, but it would be nice if I could somehow > manage to plot > the data without having to import it all inot a spreadsheet to make changes. > The error was from the miss=" " and is a problem with our parsing. You don't need to specify a blank as missing, we just assume its missing if nothing is there. Another couple of points - In the second line of your header you reference a "SIGN" parameter but in the first line you have an "ID". Also, as you noted your lat/lon needs a scale factor. Below is the correct header: (index) -> (Time,Latitude,Longitude,ID(Text),WDIR,WSPD,slp,ATMP,SST,WvDr,WvPs,WvHs) Time[fmt="yyyyMMdd HHmm" colspan="2"],Latitude[unit="deg" scale="0.01"],Longitude[unit="deg" scale="0.01"],skip[colspan="8"], ID(Text),skip[colspan="2"],WDIR[unit="deg" ],skip[],WSPD[unit="m/s" ],skip[colspan="4"],slp[unit="mb"],skip[colspan="3"],ATMP[unit="celsius"],skip[colspan="5"],SST[unit="celsius"],skip[colspan="7"],WvDr[unit="deg" ],WvPs[unit="s" ],WvHs[unit="m" ] > I've attached a sample of the first couple dozen lines. > > Questions: > The time format. Date and time are in 2 comma-separated columns. OK? Yes, the colspan takes care of that. > The time part is in decimal hours, without the decimal (e.g., 0065). How do I > handle this? What do you mean by decimal hours? What is 0065? > there are lots of fields that I don't care about. Can I apply the colspan > attribute to skip? > e.g., skip[colspan="6"] Yes (which was new to me). We have made a number of fixes to the text point data code recently You should try this with the nightly build: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/nightly/index.jsp -Jeff Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: GWF-940554 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open