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The function nc_open opens an existing netCDF dataset for access. It determines the underlying file format automatically. Use the same call to open a netCDF classic, 64-bit offset, or netCDF-4 file.
int nc_open (const char *path, int omode, int *ncidp);
pathomodeOtherwise, the open mode is NC_WRITE, NC_SHARE, or NC_WRITE|NC_SHARE. Setting the NC_WRITE flag opens the dataset with read-write access. ("Writing" means any kind of change to the dataset, including appending or changing data, adding or renaming dimensions, variables, and attributes, or deleting attributes.)
The NC_SHARE flag is only used for netCDF classic and 64-bit offset files. It is appropriate when one process may be writing the dataset and one or more other processes reading the dataset concurrently; it means that dataset accesses are not buffered and caching is limited. Since the buffering scheme is optimized for sequential access, programs that do not access data sequentially may see some performance improvement by setting the NC_SHARE flag.
It is not necessary to pass any information about the format of the
file being opened. The file type will be detected automatically by the
netCDF library.
ncidpWhen opening a netCDF-4 file HDF5 error reporting is turned off, if it is on. This doesn't stop the HDF5 error stack from recording the errors, it simply stops their display to the user through stderr.
nc_open returns the value NC_NOERR if no errors occurred. Otherwise, the returned status indicates an error. Possible causes of errors include:
NC_NOERRNC_NOMEMNC_EHDFERRNC_EDIMMETANC_ENOCOMPOINDHere is an example using nc_open to open an existing netCDF dataset named foo.nc for read-only, non-shared access:
#include <netcdf.h>
...
int status;
int ncid;
...
status = nc_open("foo.nc", 0, &ncid);
if (status != NC_NOERR) handle_error(status);
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