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22.9 Learning about User Defined Types
Inquiry functions in netCDF-4 allow users to learn about user-defined types when reading a file.

 

20 netCDF inquiry functions provide information about user defined types in the C library, and there are analogous functions in libraries for the other language APIs.

C prototypes for type inquiry functions, from netcedf.h Show popup

 


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