Thanks, Larry,
That's better:
:experimental3 = "LineOne\n",
"LineTwo." ;
It'd be nice to lose the '\n' though. As there isn't one in the input string,
just the char(10) equivalent..
Cheers
Harry
On 28 Oct 2010, at 16:33, Larry D. Oolman wrote:
> The \n is the method for embedding a new line in 'C'.
> To do it in FORTRAN, you will need to do something like:
>
> status = nf_put_att_text(ncid,nf_global,'experimental3',16,"LineOne" //
> char(10) // "LineTwo.")
>
> Ian Harris wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Firstly, apologies if this list isn't the closest match to my problem - I
>> can't see one closer!
>>
>> I'm writing NetCDF files from F77, all working nicely.. until I try to write
>> text attributes with multiple lines.
>>
>> As far as I can discover, I'm supposed to embed '\n' terminators in the
>> strings, which makes sense to me. UCAR's NetCDF information includes:
>>
>> <QUOTE>
>> The usual escape conventions for C strings are honored. For example:
>>
>> "a" // ASCII 'a'
>> "Two\nlines\n" // a 10-character string with two embedded newlines
>> "a bell:\007" // a string containing an ASCII bell
>> "ab","cde" // the same as "abcde"
>> </QUOTE>
>>
>> (From http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf.html - I'm
>> currently running NetCDF 3.6.3 according to ncdump)
>>
>> However, when I try this, it doesn't seem to work. The library seems to add
>> a second backslash. For example:
>>
>> I run:
>>
>> status =
>> nf_put_att_text(ncid,nf_global,'experimental3',16,"LineOne\nLineTwo.")
>>
>> ncdump -h on the result:
>>
>> :experimental3 = "LineOne\\nLineTwo" ;
>>
>> I note that the full stop is missing from the end, implying to me that the
>> '\n' has been counted as a single character, but the extra '\' has exhausted
>> the character count (16) before the end.
>>
>> Is this expected behaviour? If so, is there any way for me to produce
>> multi-line attribute values?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Harry
>> Ian "Harry" Harris
>> Climatic Research Unit
>> School of Environmental Sciences
>> University of East Anglia
>> Norwich NR4 7TJ
>> United Kingdom
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