From ee761439084ed3a23133f0cc9c7ffb442376dafa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hsoh-u <hsoh@ucar.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:02:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] #1965 initialize var_idx

---
 met/src/tools/other/ioda2nc/ioda2nc.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/met/src/tools/other/ioda2nc/ioda2nc.cc b/met/src/tools/other/ioda2nc/ioda2nc.cc
index 1d27aa5ec1..323cd83447 100644
--- a/met/src/tools/other/ioda2nc/ioda2nc.cc
+++ b/met/src/tools/other/ioda2nc/ioda2nc.cc
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ void process_ioda_file(int i_pb) {
 
       n_hdr_obs = 0;
       for(idx=0; idx<v_obs_data.size(); idx++ ) {
-         int var_idx;
+         int var_idx = 0;
          if (!obs_var_names.has(raw_var_names[idx], var_idx)) {
             mlog << Warning << "\n" << method_name
                  << "Skip the variable " << raw_var_names[idx]