Re: Fortran and Attribute Strings

• To: Jim Secan <jim@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Fortran and Attribute Strings
• From: William Noon <noon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 15:26:44 -0400

Jim -- Do you know which 'python-netCDF processor' was used to generate
your dataset?  There are several.  I wrote one of them (the nc module)
and I believe I handle string attributes by creating the attribute
with a length equal to that of the string (without any null termination).
You can, however, create an attribute of a certain length and then put a
shorter string in it.  In this case it will fill with nulls.

--Bill Noon
Northeast Regional Climate Center
Cornell University

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  • Fortran and Attribute Strings
    • From: Jim Secan