Auxiliary Types and Constants
The netCDF classes use several auxiliary types for arguments and return
types from member functions: NcToken, NcType,
NcBool, and ncbyte.
NcToken- Used for names for netCDF objects, in particular variable names, dimension
names, and attribute names. Currently this is just a typedef for
const char*.
NcType- Used for specifying netCDF external value types. Currently this is an
enumerated type with the following legitimate values:
ncByte,
ncChar, ncShort, ncInt, ncLong (deprecated),
ncFloat, and ncDouble.
NcBool- Used for the return type of some member functions. If the member
function fails, 0 is returned, otherwise some non-zero value. Currently
this is just a typedef for
unsigned int. It will be changed to
bool when all C++ compilers support the new bool type.
ncbyte- Used to declare values of type
ncByte, for 8-bit integer data.
(This is currently a typedef for unsigned char, but it may be
changed to a typedef for signed char, so don't depend on the
underlying representation.)
