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Since its inception (~1992), our code has had a netCDF "dimension" named "string". This has never caused a problem in writing (classic) netCDF files via the Fortran interface. However, if I run ncdump on one of these files, followed by ncgen: ncdump -p 7,17 bk_ncsx.nc > bk_ncsx.cdl ncgen -o test_ncsx.nc bk_ncsx.cdl ncgen: bk_ncsx.cdl line 4: syntax error, unexpected '=' Where line 4 contains: string = 300 ; If I change "string" to anything else, ncgen succeeds. Moreover, ncgen3 accepts the use of "string" as is; in fact, we have been using ncgen3 as a workaround for some time. As I understand it, there are no reserved names for dimensions or variables in the netCDF specification; this is consistent with our ability to write these netCDF files via the Fortran interface. So, is there a problem with ncgen here? Thanks, Daren Stotler -- _______________________________________________________________ Daren Stotler Senior Physicist http://w3.pppl.gov/~dstotler 609-243-2063 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory MS 27 P.O. Box 451 Princeton, NJ 08543
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