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970813: ncdump output order for fortran

Michael,

>Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:51:00 -0700 (PDT) 
>From: Michael Watts <address@hidden>
>Organization: NASA/ARC
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 970813: ncdump output order for fortran 
>Keywords: 199708121910.NAA09780

In the above message, you wrote:

> Steve,
> I miss typed I know that fortran is 1 and c is 0 and I meant to say
> (corrected Text)
> > If I use nc_get_var1 to get index (1,2,3) for a file written in c
> > I will get a different number than using nf_get_var1 with index(2,3,4).
> > I will get the value at index (4,3,2) [index in fortran].  This seems
> >counter to the concept
> > that netcdf if language dependent.  I should get the value at index slot
> >(2,3,4)
> > no mater which language I use to write or read. This is of course given
> >the correct index starts.

If the netCDF Fortran interface worked the way you described above,
then a Fortran user who read an entire netCDF array into memory would
find that array element (2,3,4) didn't map to netCDF variable element
(2,3,4).  This would require that the user manage two distinct sets of
indices and would, in our opinion, cause much unnecessary confusion.

> >A better way would say (offset 2 from start,
> >offset 3 from start, offset 4 from start)

Possibly, but Fortran doesn't do that, so neither does the netCDF
Fortran interface.

A netCDF dataset is language-independent: the same data will be seen
regardlesss of which language is used to access it.  The netCDF API for
a given language, however, is necessarily language-dependent, to do
otherwise would not be supporting that language.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>