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Re: reading netcdf-4 ubyte datatype [message #74682 is a reply to message #74679]

Fri, 28 January 2011 09:44

David Fanning
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Alison writes:

> I am using IDL 8.0 for Linux. I also notice that if I write an IDL
> "byte" variable (which is unsigned) to a netcdf file, it is written as
> a netcdf "byte" type (signed), when it should be "ubyte" (unsigned).
> There doesn't appear to be any way to control the datatype which IDL
> is automatically choosing when reading/writing from netcdf file. Is
> there a way to represent my 8-bit unsigned data so that it is handled
> properly in both IDL and netcdf-4?

Do you have an example of such a file we can test with?

Cheers,

David

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		Re: reading netcdf-4 ubyte datatype By: David Fanning on Fri, 28 January 2011 11:22
		Re: reading netcdf-4 ubyte datatype By: alison on Fri, 28 January 2011 11:08
		Re: reading netcdf-4 ubyte datatype By: David Fanning on Fri, 28 January 2011 09:44
		Re: reading netcdf-4 ubyte datatype By: alison on Fri, 28 January 2011 09:35
		Re: reading netcdf-4 ubyte datatype By: Fabzou on Fri, 28 January 2011 03:39
		Re: reading netcdf-4 ubyte datatype By: alison on Thu, 03 February 2011 13:27

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