Were you able to track down the problem?

--Chris

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> You'll have to provide more information about
> your PDL install (version number,...) since my
> line 459 in Misc.pm does not have a multiplication
> on it.  You could try running under the perl
> debugger and put a breakpoint on the line in
> question when the argument "********" is found.
>
> --Chris
>
> To track this down,
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Hyer, Dr. Edward
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Here is my error:
>>
>> Argument "********" isn't numeric in multiplication (*) at
>>        
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/PDL/IO/Misc.pm 
>> line 459, <$fh> line 6 (#1)
>>    (W numeric) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an operator
>>    that expected a numeric value instead.  If you're fortunate the message
>>    will identify which operator was so unfortunate.
>>
>> I know how it happened, but I'm having a terrible time finding the problem 
>> and fixing it because I have no information on the backtrace, and this error 
>> is non-fatal. I tried using 'use diagnostics' but to no avail.
>>
>> This happened on one of thousands of calls to this library, and without a 
>> backtrace, I have no way to figure out which one.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> --Edward H.
>>
>>
>> Dr. Edward J. Hyer
>> Physical Scientist
>> Naval Research Laboratory
>> Marine Meteorology Division
>> 7 Grace Hopper Avenue, Stop 2
>> Monterey, California 93940
>> 831-656-4023
>> FAX 831-656-4769
>> [email protected]
>>
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