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20010720: GEMPAK STIDs

Darrell,

Yes, begin with a letter. They must be capital letters.
And, you may have 8 characters in the ID.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Darrell Bryan Ensley wrote:

>
> Steve,
>
> quick question: are GEMPAK STIDs for surface files
> required to begin with a letter and not a number
> or can i name the STIDs anything i want.
>
> also how many characters can they have?
>
> sorry to post this directly to you but i need a
> quick answer.
>
> thanks!
>
> Darrell
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~     Darrell Bryan Ensley      ~
> ~    Mesoscale Dynamics Lab     ~
> ~   North Carolina State Univ.  ~
> ~    address@hidden    ~
> ~       W: (919) 515-1437       ~
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>