On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Eric Levy wrote:
> Robb-
> Thank you very much... I will see what I can do. I may not be a huge
> help in debugging, since I am teaching my self about RegEx (I've never
> used them before.)
>
> As an instrument pilot and a meteorologist I can see the benifit of
> the Metar protocol, but as a computer programmer I can't stand it.
> It is the most unfriendly protocol for computer programming. I
> have an extensive background in parsing binary protocols, compressed
> binary protocols, ascii value protocols, comma delimted, etc. and I
> never have run across one that is so unfriendly to a programmer...
> but C'est La Vie. I look forward to the day when bandwidth and
> horsepower no longer matters and XML is the only way to go, it's not
> too far off. (I like the XML output in your code.)
>
> I do have one more question, do you know where I can find a database
> that is updated on a fairly routine basis with information on the
> stations. I have found a couple of sources, but I am looking for one
> that is official or semi-official and contains the ICAO Name, the
> Long/Lat, the Time Zone Value and the GMT offset. I am trying to
> calculate the high/low temp and the rainfall for the day on an hourly
> basis as well as the other parameters.
> Thanks,
not really, i used the sfmetar_sa.tbl table that gets updated once in
awhile. if you find a better table, i would like to know.
robb...
> Eric
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robb Kambic [mailto:rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tue 7/19/2005 3:38 PM
> To: Eric Levy
> Cc: support-thredds; decoders
> Subject: Re: 20050718: Metar Decoder Source Code
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>
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Unidata Support wrote:
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> > >From: "Eric Levy" <Eric.Levy@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >Subject: Metar Decoder Source Code
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> > >Keywords: 200507182342.j6INgmjo024984
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> > I came across some documentation on a Metar Decoder class in Java,
> > but I was unable to find the source code for it online. I am trying
> > to write a Metar decoder and this would be very helpful. Can you
> > give me any insight into where I might find this if it is available.
> > Thanks,
>
> attached is tar file with the java source for a tomcat metar parser. i
> would appreciate a report of any bugs you find. the code is just
> starting
> it's beta cycle.
>
> robb...
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> > Eric Levy
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