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[netcdfgroup] Reading classic netcdf3 files from string or file handle instead of file name

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  • Subject: [netcdfgroup] Reading classic netcdf3 files from string or file handle instead of file name
  • From: Doug Hunt <dhunt@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:19:00 -0700 (MST)
Hi Netcdf Folks:
I'm interested in adding a feature to the PDL::NetCDF library in which I allow users to pass not the file name of a netcdf 3 file to read, but a buffer containing the contents in memory. Alternatively, fmemopen(3) could be used on the buffer and the resulting FILE * could be passed in. 

I quick look at the netCDF source code shows that it is a bit complicated:
from 'ncopen' (which takes a file name as input) there is a complex path until the 'fopen' is finally done and a FILE * is obtained.
Has anyone done this? I note that this functionality seems similar, though not identical to Dr. Heimbigner's NC_DISKLESS mode. 

Best Regards,

  Doug Hunt

dhunt@xxxxxxxx
Software Engineer IV
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611
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