From debac0795df9349a2cf57b43bcde731aeed20fa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Halley Gotway <johnhg@ucar.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:57:00 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Per #1950, small tweak in ascii2nc to make it slightly more
 efficient. After adding the new obs varable name to the end of the list, we
 can compute var_index direclty without needing to call StringArray::has() a
 second time.

---
 met/src/tools/other/ascii2nc/met_handler.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/met/src/tools/other/ascii2nc/met_handler.cc b/met/src/tools/other/ascii2nc/met_handler.cc
index dbb4c4d2a7..cd7c8f2576 100644
--- a/met/src/tools/other/ascii2nc/met_handler.cc
+++ b/met/src/tools/other/ascii2nc/met_handler.cc
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ bool MetHandler::_readObservations(LineDataFile &ascii_file)
         use_var_id = true;
         if (!obs_names.has(data_line[6], var_index)) {
            obs_names.add(data_line[6]);
-           obs_names.has(data_line[6], var_index);
+           var_index = obs_names.n() - 1;
         }
         grib_code = var_index;
         break;