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Re: NCDF_ATTPUT _FillValue problem for string arrays? [message #67140 is a reply to message #67134]

Mon, 06 July 2009 14:41

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002

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Fï¿½LDY Lajos wrote:
>
>
>
> NCDF_VARDEF needs dimension ID, not dimension size. The following code
> works for me:
>
> ncid=ncdf_create('test.nc', /clobber)
> dim32=ncdf_dimdef(ncid, 'dim1', 32)
> n_absorbers_dimid=ncdf_dimdef(ncid, 'dim2', 9)
> varid = ncdf_vardef( ncid, 'absorber_units_name',
> [dim32,n_absorbers_dimid], /char)
> ncdf_attput, ncid, varid, '_fillvalue', ' '
> ncdf_control, ncid, /endef
> ncdf_close, ncid

Just a final followup - I changed the definition of the offending attribute to
"_fillvalue" in my production code and now the ncdf_attput works as expected.

thanks again. I have little hair left to tear out when these annoyances arise so you've
saved me a tuft or two! :o)

cheers,

paulv

p.s. I should note that the futzing up of the _fillvalue attribute *only* occurred for
character variable output. Any other datatype (byte, long, float, double etc) handled the
camel case attribute name fine. Weird.

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		Re: NCDF_ATTPUT _FillValue problem for string arrays? By: Foldy Lajos on Tue, 07 July 2009 00:17
		Re: NCDF_ATTPUT _FillValue problem for string arrays? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 06 July 2009 14:41
		Re: NCDF_ATTPUT _FillValue problem for string arrays? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 06 July 2009 13:41
		Re: NCDF_ATTPUT _FillValue problem for string arrays? By: Foldy Lajos on Mon, 06 July 2009 12:38
		Re: NCDF_ATTPUT _FillValue problem for string arrays? By: R.Bauer on Wed, 08 July 2009 06:55
		Re: NCDF_ATTPUT _FillValue problem for string arrays? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 July 2009 12:12

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