valx.f File Reference

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Functions/Subroutines
function	valx (STR)
	THIS FUNCTION DECODES A REAL NUMBER FROM A CHARACTER STRING. More...

Detailed Description

Author

WOOLLEN

Date

1994-01-06

Definition in file valx.f.

Function/Subroutine Documentation

function valx

(

character*(*)

STR

)

THIS FUNCTION DECODES A REAL NUMBER FROM A CHARACTER STRING.

IF THE DECODE FAILS, THEN THE VALUE BMISS IS RETURNED. NOTE THAT, UNLIKE FOR SUBROUTINE STRNUM, THE INPUT STRING MAY CONTAIN A LEADING SIGN CHARACTER (E.G. '+', '-').

PROGRAM HISTORY LOG: 1994-01-06 J. WOOLLEN – ORIGINAL AUTHOR 1998-07-08 J. WOOLLEN – REPLACED CALL TO CRAY LIBRARY ROUTINE "ABORT" WITH CALL TO NEW INTERNAL BUFRLIB ROUTINE "BORT" 1999-11-18 J. WOOLLEN – RENAMED THIS FUNCTION FROM "VAL$" TO "VALX" TO REMOVE THE POSSIBILITY OF THE "$" SYMBOL CAUSING PROBLEMS ON OTHER PLATFORMS 2003-11-04 J. ATOR – ADDED DOCUMENTATION 2003-11-04 S. BENDER – ADDED REMARKS/BUFRLIB ROUTINE INTERDEPENDENCIES 2003-11-04 D. KEYSER – UNIFIED/PORTABLE FOR WRF; ADDED HISTORY DOCUMENTATION; OUTPUTS MORE COMPLETE DIAGNOSTIC INFO WHEN ROUTINE TERMINATES ABNORMALLY; CHANGED CALL FROM BORT TO BORT2 2009-04-21 J. ATOR – USE ERRWRT

USAGE: VALX (STR) INPUT ARGUMENT LIST: STR - CHARACTER*(*): STRING CONTAINING ENCODED REAL VALUE

OUTPUT ARGUMENT LIST: VALX - REAL: DECODED VALUE

REMARKS: THIS ROUTINE CALLS: BORT2 ERRWRT RJUST THIS ROUTINE IS CALLED BY: GETTBH NEMTBB UPFTBV Normally not called by any application programs but it could be.

Definition at line 39 of file valx.f.

References bort2(), errwrt(), and rjust().

Referenced by gettbh(), nemtbb(), and upftbv().