Fortran and Attribute Strings

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: Fortran and Attribute Strings
• From: Jim Secan <jim@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 11:28:49 -0700

I've seen traffic on null-termination of strings + Fortran + netCDF, and
have read the section in the manual regarding this issue.  BUT, I thought I
understood this to mean that attribute strings would not be terminated by a
null.  

The files I am reading are written by a python-netCDF processor, and the
strings I get from attributes using the Fortran interface (netCDF version
3.4) are null terminated and the length I get back from nf_inq_attlen
includes the null.  If this is the standard, expected behavior, I can
simply look for and remove null characters any time I read an attribute
string.  I would rather, however, that something a bit lower down in the
library chain deal with this for me.  Am I missing something?

Jim
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