Problems with Strings

[Tim.Weilkiens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tim Weilkiens)]

Hello,

I have the following problem:

My netCDF file structure:

..
dim2 = 2;
dim30 = 30;
..
char name(dim2, dim30);
..

I read the data with:

long start[MAX_DIMS] = {0, 0};
long count[MAX_DIMS] = {2, 30};
ncvarget(cdfid, start, count, &value);

After this operation value contains the data in this way: 
<string1><string2>, e.g. JohnPaul

So, how can I know which part is the first string and which is the second.
There is no delimiter set, and I only know that the max. string length is 30.


Thanks for any helpful hints,

    Tim


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