Hi Patrick-
Patrick Koethur wrote:
thanks a lot for the really quick help. newUnit works just fine. I'm
scripting some computations with celsius data and want to display the
results in a topography display, therefore the unit change.
Okay. Somewhere on our long TODO list is an item to allow users to
display a field as a topography in the main display without having
to do what you do now. But that's low on the list at the moment.
One more quick question: I have a FieldImpl containing the data of one
variable. How do I get the name of that variable? I've tried
rangeType(data.getSample(0)).prettyString(), but that also gives me some
additional information about the unit (e.g. 'tho[unit:Celsius]'), which
I don't need (I only want to get the 'tho').
You can use ucar.visad.Util.cleanTypeName on the 'tho[unit:Celsius]'
string, which will remove the [unit:Celsius]. tho[unit:Celsius]
is actually the RealType name that we use.
Don
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