Taylor,
> To finish up with my question, if I can not manually close a file, if I
> open a NEW file with the same handle 'ncfile' (imagine the small code
> snippet that I included earlier being inside a loop ), will this deallocate
> the memory used by the earlier instance? I'd like to open (and close)
> several files in sequence and would like to minimize memory usage.
Here's the response from Lynton Appel:
... The following will loop through a a set of files. At each pass
through the loop, the destructor functions for NcDim and NcFile are
called; in particular the NcFile destructor will issue a call to
nc_close. So, in my view the API is working correctly.
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <netcdf>
using namespace std;
using namespace netCDF;
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char* fileName[] = {"efitOut.nc","efitOut2.nc"};
int i;
for(i=0;i<2;i++)
{
NcFile ncFile(fileName[i],NcFile::replace);
NcDim timeDim(ncFile.addDim("time",2));
}
return 1;
}
--Russ
