writlc.f File Reference

Write a long character string (greater than 8 bytes) to a data subset. More...

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Functions/Subroutines
subroutine	writlc (LUNIT, CHR, STR)
	This subroutine writes a long character string (greater than 8 bytes) to a data subset. More...

Detailed Description

Write a long character string (greater than 8 bytes) to a data subset.

Definition in file writlc.f.

Function/Subroutine Documentation

subroutine writlc	(		LUNIT,
		character*(*)	CHR,
		character*(*)	STR
	)

This subroutine writes a long character string (greater than 8 bytes) to a data subset.

The data subset should have already been written into a BUFR message via a previous call to one of the subset-writing subroutines, before calling this subroutine to write any long character strings into the same subset.

Authors

J. Woollen

J. Ator

Date

2003-11-04

Parameters

[in]	LUNIT	- integer: Fortran logical unit number for BUFR file
[in]	CHR	- character*(*): Value corresponding to STR
[in]	STR	- character*(*): Table B mnemonic of long character string to be written, possibly supplemented with an ordinal occurrence notation

If there is more than one occurrence of STR within the data subset definition, then each occurrence can be written via a separate call to this subroutine, and by appending the ordinal number of the occurrence to STR in each case. For example, if there are 5 occurrences of mnemonic LSTID within a given data subset definition, then 5 separate calls should be made to this subroutine, once each with STR set to 'LSTID#1', 'LSTID#2', 'LSTID#3', 'LSTID#4' and 'LSTID#5'. However, the first notation is superfluous, because omitting the ordinal number always defaults to the first occurrence of a particular string, so a user could just specify 'LSTID' instead of 'LSTID#1'.

Remarks

• Character strings which are 8 bytes or less in length can be written by converting the string into a real*8 value within the application program, and then using the real*8 USR array within a call to one of the BUFRLIB values-writing subroutines prior to calling one of the subset-writing subroutines for the data subset.

Program history log:

• 2003-11-04 J. Woollen – Original author
• 2004-08-09 J. Ator – Maximum message length increased from 20,000 to 50,000 bytes
• 2005-11-29 J. Ator – Use getlens()
• 2007-01-19 J. Ator – Replaced call to parseq with call to parstr()
• 2009-03-23 J. Ator – Added '#' option for more than one occurrence of STR
• 2009-08-11 J. Woollen – Added COMMON COMPRS along with logic to write long strings into compressed subsets
• 2012-12-07 J. Ator – Allow str mnemonic length of up to 14 chars when used with '#' occurrence code
• 2014-10-22 J. Ator – No longer abort if no subset available for writing; just print a warning message
• 2014-12-10 J. Ator – USE modules instead of COMMON blocks
• 2020-09-09 J. Ator – No longer abort if STR not available within subset definition; instead, just print a warning message

Definition at line 65 of file writlc.f.

References bort(), errwrt(), getlens(), iupbs3(), parstr(), parutg(), pkc(), status(), upb(), upbb(), and usrtpl().

Referenced by msgupd().