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Re: NCDF_ATTCOPY and typecasting [message #49865 is a reply to message #49798]

Mon, 21 August 2006 10:30

David Fanning
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alexzcervantes@gmail.com writes:

> Okay, after doing more researching, I read that ncdump translates byte
> data into readable string whenever it can. How come it won't do it in
> my case?

Don't know. Maybe this is one of the scenarios in which it can't. :-)

I wouldn't worry too much about it. It is quite common to store
strings as byte arrays. Presumably the user can figure out he
needs a string and cast the byte array to that.

Cheers,

David
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		NCDF_ATTCOPY and typecasting By: alexzcervantes@gmail. on Fri, 18 August 2006 10:26
		Re: NCDF_ATTCOPY and typecasting By: K. Bowman on Mon, 21 August 2006 10:08
		Re: NCDF_ATTCOPY and typecasting By: David Fanning on Mon, 21 August 2006 10:30
		Re: NCDF_ATTCOPY and typecasting By: alexzcervantes@gmail. on Mon, 21 August 2006 10:11
		Re: NCDF_ATTCOPY and typecasting By: alexzcervantes@gmail. on Mon, 21 August 2006 09:40
		Re: NCDF_ATTCOPY and typecasting By: David Fanning on Fri, 18 August 2006 13:34

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