At 12:24 PM 08/03/01 +1200, Mark Hadfield wrote:
>Hello all
>
>I started writing the following as a bug report to the IDL people, but now
>I'm not so sure. Perhaps the netCDF experts could give a ruling on this
>matter:
>
> When an application writes text data to a netCDF file attribute,
> should it (may it, must it) terminate the data with a null character?
Mark...
I've had to deal with this from Fortran programs as well, and I'd certainly
like to see it "fixed." I hacked around this by writing a short utility
routine that checks a string to see if it terminates with a '\0' character.
If so, the null is replaced by a space. An engineering approach, perhaps,
but it cured what ailed me.
Jim
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