[McIDAS #QLY-545896]: TXT2MD

Hi Kwan,

re:
> I need to get back to you on TXT2MD again because it seems like upctxt2md
> is not decoding every line in my text file (metar2.txt attached).  First, I
> tested using txt2md.
> 
> txt2md.k metar2.txt 1000 ISFC MISS=-9999
> 
> Now, when I listed the data for VHHH, I got
> 
> ID  DAY[CYD]  HMS[HMS]      T[C]   PSL[MB]
> ---- --------- --------- --------- ---------
> VHHH   2013314    113000     23.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    120000     23.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    124000     24.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    130000     23.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    134000     23.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    140000     23.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    144000     23.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    150000     23.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    154000     23.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    160000     25.99   1013.89
> VHHH   2013314    164000     25.99   1013.89
> VHHH   2013314    170000     25.99   1013.89
> VHHH   2013314    174000     25.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    180000     25.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    184000     25.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    190000     25.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    194000     25.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    200000     24.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    204000     24.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    210000     24.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    214000     24.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    220000     24.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    224000     24.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    230000     24.99   1013.89
> VHHH   2013314    234000     24.99   1013.89
> *VHHH   2013314         0     24.99   1013.89
> VHHH   2013314      4000     25.99   1014.91
> VHHH   2013314     10000     25.99   1014.91
> VHHH   2013314     14000     25.99   1014.91
> VHHH   2013314     20000     25.99   1014.91
> VHHH   2013314     24000     25.99   1014.91
> VHHH   2013314     30000     25.99   1014.91
> VHHH   2013314     34000     25.99   1013.89
> VHHH   2013314     40000     25.99   1013.89
> VHHH   2013314     44000     25.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314     50000     24.99   1011.86
> VHHH   2013314     54000     25.99   1011.86
> VHHH   2013314     60000     26.99   1010.85
> VHHH   2013314     64000     25.99   1010.85
> VHHH   2013314     70000     24.99   1010.85
> VHHH   2013314     74000     25.99   1010.85
> VHHH   2013314     80000     24.99   1010.85
> VHHH   2013314     84000     24.99   1010.85
> VHHH   2013314     90000     24.99   1010.85
> VHHH   2013314     93000     24.99   1011.86
> VHHH   2013314    100000     24.99   1011.86
> VHHH   2013314    104000     24.99   1011.86
> VHHH   2013314    110000     24.99   1012.88
> VHHH   2013314    114000     24.99   1012.88
> Number of matches found = 49
> ptlist.k: Done
> 
> which confirms the bug that you indicted before (the date did not advance
> to 2013315 at 00Z as it should (the line marked with a * and below).
> 
> Now when I tried using upctxt2md, I got only two line.
> 
> mdu.k DEL 1000
> upctxt2md.k metar2.txt 1000 ISFC MISS=-9999
> ptlist.k MYDATA/PTSRCS.1000 FORM=DATA PAR=ID DAY HMS T[C] PSL SEL='ID VHHH'
> NUM=ALL
> 
> ID  DAY[CYD]  HMS[HMS]      T[C]   PSL[MB]
> ---- --------- --------- --------- ---------
> VHHH   2013314    234000     24.99   1013.89
> VHHH   2013315    114000     24.99   1012.88
> Number of matches found = 2
> ptlist.k: Done
> 
> I have absolutely no idea why only these two lines were decoded.

I think that your problem would go away if you separated the two days
of observations into separate source files.  Files with days/times
that increment for individual stations seems to be beyond the
capability of both txt2md.k and upctx2md.k.  It seems to me that
a simple shell script could be written to easily separate the obs for
different days into different in put files.

Cheers,

Tom
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