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4.6 Attribute Methods

Things you can do with a netCDF attribute include inquiring about its type or length, defining its value, and getting its value.

In the netCDF C-based interfaces, operations on attributes include:

Create an attribute, given the associated variable and the attribute name, data type, length, and value.
Get attribute's data type or length from the associated variable and attribute name.
Get attribute's value from the associated variable and attribute name.
Copy an attribute from one netCDF variable to another.
Get the name of an attribute from its number among all of a variable's attributes.
Rename an attribute.
Delete an attribute.

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