Re: arrays of fixed-length strings

• To: Jeff Whitaker <jswhit@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: arrays of fixed-length strings
• From: Ed Hartnett <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:32:02 -0600

Jeff Whitaker <jswhit@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In netcdf-4.0, I don't see how to create variables which are arrays of
> strings with length > 1.  I see how to create arrays of
> single-characters, and arrays of variable-length strings, but not
> strings of a specified length.
>
> Am I missing something, or is this not supported by HDF5?
>

Howdy Jeff!

Strings are variable length by their nature.

How about a two dimensional array of NC_CHAR?

Thanks,

Ed


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