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Re: How do I get IDL to place a string array into a netdcf file attribute? [message #84433 is a reply to message #84427]

Sat, 01 June 2013 17:19

Peter Thorne
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Registered: October 2000

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On Saturday, June 1, 2013 9:19:17 AM UTC-4, Fabien wrote:
> An array of strings is not really an attribute anymore. You should
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> define a new variable (as a string array) for this. Why do you want to
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> keep it as an attribute?
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> Cheers,
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> fab

Thanks. Am trying to make some cf compliant netcdf files for which a large number of integer (short) vectors are flag values of the same dimension as the (much smaller number of) data vectors which are floats. I can write the fag values vectors themselves and the flag values attributes themselves w/o issue but am struggling with how to pass a flag meanings attribute which makes the flag arrays make sense to a user. In one case I have 50+ unique legal flag values which need to be interpretable by a user.

Peter

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		Re: How do I get IDL to place a string array into a netdcf file attribute? By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 03 June 2013 12:08
		Re: How do I get IDL to place a string array into a netdcf file attribute? By: Fabzi on Sun, 02 June 2013 10:40
		Re: How do I get IDL to place a string array into a netdcf file attribute? By: Peter Thorne on Sat, 01 June 2013 17:19
		Re: How do I get IDL to place a string array into a netdcf file attribute? By: Fabzi on Sat, 01 June 2013 06:19
		Re: How do I get IDL to place a string array into a netdcf file attribute? By: Peter Thorne on Wed, 05 June 2013 06:26

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