Re: [netcdfgroup] c++ NcFile assignment doesn't work

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• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] c++ NcFile assignment doesn't work
• From: Jack Stalnaker <jack.stalnaker@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:47:24 -0500

I should add that the code works just fine if the NcFile variable is
initialized immediately. That is, replace:

    NcFile foo;
    foo = NcFile("blah.nc", NcFile::replace);

with just

    NcFile foo("blah.nc", NcFile::replace);

and it works perfectly well.


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Jack Stalnaker <jack.stalnaker@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Not too far back I noticed that I could not use an NcFile object as a
> class member, which I asked about here:
> http://netcdf-group.1586084.n2.nabble.com/NcFile-as-class-member-td7575625.html#a7575628
>
> I never resolved that issue, but I was playing around with it again today.
> I wrote a very simple bit of test code, and realized the problem is
> actually much more fundamental than the one I originally asked about.
> Assignment to an empty NcFile variable does not work anywhere.
>
> For example:
>
> #include <netcdf>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     using namespace netCDF;
>     using namespace netCDF::exceptions;
>
>     NcFile foo;
>     foo = NcFile("blah.nc", NcFile::replace);
>
>     double baz = 1.0;
>     foo.putAtt("bar", ncDouble, size_t(1), &baz);
>
>     return 0;
> }
>
> fails at the putAtt line with the same netCDF::exceptions::NcBadId
> exception I saw in the older question. The exception points to ncGroup.cpp
> line 791, which is just the definition of putAtt.
>
> Anyone have any insight? Thanks.
>

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