Hi Michael,
> I have a NetCDF v4 file, which can be converted to text form by using
> the ncdump tool. However, when I try to reconstruct the file using ncgen,
> it fails saying:
>
> -bash-4.1$ ncdump efitOut.nc >efitOut.cdl
> -bash-4.1$ ncgen efitOut.cdl -o new.nc
> ncgen: efitOut.cdl line 8: syntax error, unexpected IDENT, expecting '='
>
> what is wrong? I have difficulties reading this file in quite any sotfware
> except for IDL 8
The first thing that's wrong is that one of your enumeration labels contains
a blank-space in its name, which ncdump doesn't properly escape:
byte enum equilibriumStatusType {Converged = 1, Vacuum = 2, NotConverged = 3,
Fatal error = 4} ;
The ncdump utility should output this as
byte enum equilibriumStatusType {Converged = 1, Vacuum = 2, NotConverged = 3,
Fatal\ error = 4} ;
instead, so that's a bug in ncdump. If you manually edit the CDL file to
the second form, ncgen gets further, but ultimately exits with a memory fault.
I'll fix the bug in ncdump before the next release and pass the ncgen bug to
the developer for further investigation.
Thanks for reporting the bug!
--Russ
Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: WJF-305473
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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