I think this is a bug that needs to be fixed. there are some issues about
translating to valid
netcdf3 names that I have to look at. thanks for reporting, i'll get back to
you.
Christopher Mueller wrote:
> All,
>
> I am using the ucar.nc2.FileWriter to write an opendap file to a local
> nc file. The process works great, but I’ve noticed that if there are
> “.” in the name of the variable being written (i.e.
> “temperature.anomalies”), an error (stack trace below) is thrown during
> the FileWriter.finish() call and the write fails.
>
> Error Stack:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: NetcdfFileWriteable.write illegal
> variable name = temperature.anomalies
> at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFileWriteable.write(NetcdfFileWriteable.java:538)
> at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFileWriteable.write(NetcdfFileWriteable.java:477)
> at ucar.nc2.FileWriter.copyAll(FileWriter.java:267)
> at ucar.nc2.FileWriter.copyVarData(FileWriter.java:223)
> at ucar.nc2.FileWriter.finish(FileWriter.java:459)
> at
> com.asascience.edc.nc.io.NetcdfGridWriter.writeFile(NetcdfGridWriter.java:247)
>
> Is there a way I can work around this?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Chris
>
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