Mark,
In my opinion, the best thing to do is to write code that is very
conservative about what it writes into a netCDF dataset and very
liberal about what it reads. In this specific case, I wouldn't write
the terminating NUL character. On reading, however, I would check for a
terminating NUL (regardless of language) and do the appropriate thing
for the language (ensure either its presence or absence).
Nothing in the netCDF library depends on a terminating NUL.
Regards,
Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>
