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Re: Deleting a variable from a NetCDF file [message #49485 is a reply to message #49484]

Mon, 24 July 2006 14:53

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I was afraid of that.

How about overwriting a variable in a NetCDF file?

My problem is that I have to overwrite a variable in a NetCDF file. I
was thinking of deleting the variable, and then writing my new
variable.

Is there a flag that will allow me to just overwrite the variable?

Alex
Paul Van Delst wrote:
> alexzcervantes@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am pretty new to idl, and I could find out an answer to my problem in
>> the idl helper program.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to delete a variable from a NetCDF file?
>
> I don't believe you can. At least, not via the netCDF API. Neither the C, F95, nor IDL
> netCDF API has any details about deleting a variable from a file once it's in there. Just
> creating, writing and reading one.
>
> The Java API has a removeVariable method, but I don;t know if even that does what you want
> (it removes a variable from a netCDF group, as opposed to a file)
>
> paulv
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		Re: Deleting a variable from a NetCDF file By: alexzcervantes@gmail. on Wed, 26 July 2006 09:34
		Re: Deleting a variable from a NetCDF file By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 25 July 2006 07:35
		Re: Deleting a variable from a NetCDF file By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 24 July 2006 15:03
		Re: Deleting a variable from a NetCDF file By: alexzcervantes@gmail. on Mon, 24 July 2006 14:53
		Re: Deleting a variable from a NetCDF file By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 24 July 2006 14:02

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