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Re: writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 [message #86403 is a reply to message #86402]

Tue, 05 November 2013 10:50

David Fanning
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Chris O'Dell writes:

> Thanks David! However, your program seems to require your special NetCDF libraries, which I downloaded and installed so I could run your test program. However, it still produces the same fundamental netCDF objects inside the actual netcdf file. The reason they come out as string arrays when you read them seems to be because of logic you have built into your netCDF reader. Something like, "When you encounter a field that is a n-dimensional array of characters (length
1 strings), interpret this as an array of strings, where the string length is the size of the first dimension". Something like that.

Well, I think I wrote this code in 2007, which is the last time I worked
extensively with netCDF files. I wrote the code because I couldn't make
any sense at all of the IDL documentation and I thought I could write
something that worked better. As far as I can tell, the documentation
hasn't improved. And, generally speaking, I've found that my code always
works, so I've just continued using it. If I built logic into it, it
must have been because the code was missing it in the original. ;-)

Cheers,

David

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		writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 By: Chris O'Dell on Tue, 29 October 2013 20:11
		Re: writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 By: David Fanning on Tue, 29 October 2013 21:13
		Re: writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 By: Chris O'Dell on Wed, 30 October 2013 08:49
		Re: writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 By: David Fanning on Wed, 30 October 2013 09:07
		Re: writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 November 2013 10:21
		Re: writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 November 2013 10:48
		Re: writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 November 2013 11:15
		Re: writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 By: Chris O'Dell on Tue, 05 November 2013 10:34
		Re: writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 By: David Fanning on Tue, 05 November 2013 10:50
		Re: writing fixed-length string arrays to netcdf-4 By: Chris O'Dell on Mon, 11 November 2013 16:17

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