Mailing list for netCDF / HDF project

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• Subject: Mailing list for netCDF / HDF project
• From: chouck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1992 14:29:44 -0500

Hello all,

We are currently implementing a netCDF interface on top of HDF.  I wrote 
to this list a few weeks back asking for comments and information
about how people use netCDF; I'd like to thank those people who
responded.

As part of the netCDF / HDF project we have established a mailing list
in order to discuss design issues, progress and other aspects of the
project.  The mailing list is called: hdf-netcdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx   
If you would like to be added to the list please send mail to 
hdf-netcdf-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks
-Chris

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Date: 02 May 2004 10:24:55 -0600
From: Ed Hartnett <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: VB.NET wrapper for netCDF
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"Hans-Jürgen Rieger" <H.Rieger@xxxxxx> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> first of all many thanks to Ed Hartnett for the VB wrapper class and the
> example provided to use NetCDF with VB.NET. 
> The example he provided (creation and writing/reading to/from a "test.nc"
> file) works fine. I could also use own *.CDF file (from chromatographic
> data). 
> 
> The only problem that I experience is with string-arrays.
> For example, my *.CDF file has a variable
> 
>     char peak_name(peak_number, _32_byte_string) ;
> with the two dimensions peak_number=7 and _32_byte_string=32
> 
> The data of the variable peak_name are therefore 7 strings (the peak names).
> The data should be read by the code:
> .
> .
> Case NetCDF.nc_type.NC_CHAR
>                     vartext = New StringBuilder(dimlen - 1)
>                     res = NetCDF.nc_get_var_text(ncid, varid, vartext)
>                     If (res <> 0) Then GoTo err
>                     Log("Var value: " & vartext.ToString)
> .
> .
> I´ve got the error message "StringBuilder Buffer overflow". I recognized,
> that I get no error message when the capacity of the StrinBuilder is 7*32
> (the product of the two dimensions). But now the StringBuilder variable
> vartext contains only one (the first) peakname.
> 
> What can I do to get all string values in the "peak_name" variable?
> 
> 
> With best regards
> 
> H.J. Rieger
> 
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Howdy Hans-Jürgen!

I will be very happy to take a look at this as soon as I have finished
work immediately connected with the release of the first beta of
3.6.0, which will happen very soon.

I do have a couple of questions for you.

Firstly, please do an ncdump of the file and ensure that the data are
what you expect. If you could send that to me, that might be helpful.

Secondly, did you create this file with the VB.NET interface? 

Thirdly, as I recall there is no good way in VB to handle
changes of dimensionality. That is, I could never find a way to
convert a 1D array into a 2D array without just creating the target
array and transferring every element one at a time.

In C of course one can cast, and even fortran offers some tricks to
make it happen, but the writers of VB apparently never thought of
it. Bummer.

Have you solved this dimensionality.problem in some way? For example,
how do you deal with 2D int data? If you could send more of your vb
program I would be very interested in seeing it, to see how you're
using the VB.NET interface.


Ed Hartnett