[netCDF #YEC-124697]: NetCDF Data Types

["Unidata netCDF Support" <support-netcdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee,

While looking for something unrelated, I just ran across this discussion of
support or lack of it for arrays of strings of one character in the
netcdfgroup mailing list from August 2007:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/netcdfgroup/2007-August/001665.html

If you follow the 16 or so subsequent postings by date, you will see that
there were several issues.  In particular, I wrote:

 The distinction between an N-dimensional array of chars and an
 (N-1)-dimensional array of fixed-length strings is pretty subtle, and it
 looks like we assumed you could use the former if you needed the latter.

 Multidimensional arrays of chars are supported in netCDF-4 just as in
 netCDF-3.  Maybe a few convenience functions that treat an N-dimensional
 array of chars as an (N-1)-dimensional array of strings that happen to
 be fixed length are all that's needed.  If not, we may need a more
 detailed use case that would make clear why that's inadequate.

and others commented on that.

--Russ


Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YEC-124697
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Open