Re: Referencing Attributes of an Attribute

Hi Bruce,

The quick answer is no, there is not anything akin to subattributes in
NCL..

Adam

Lunde, Bruce N CIV NAVOCEANO, NP1 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any way to reference the (for lack of a better word)
> "subattributes" of a variable ? For example, I define variables
> "a" and "b" below, where both have attributes and "b" is added
> to "a" as an attribute.
>
> I was hoping to be able to reference these "subattributes" via
> a_at_extra@name, or (a_at_extra)@name, etc.
>
> Thanks, Bruce
>
> ncl 0> a=2
> ncl 1> a_at_name="one"
>
> ncl 2> b=4
> ncl 3> b_at_name="two"
>
> ncl 4> a_at_extra=b
>
> ncl 5> print(a_at_extra@name)
> fatal:syntax error: line 5 before or near @name
> print(a_at_extra@name
> -----------------^
>
> fatal:error in statement
> ncl 6> print((a_at_extra)@name)
> fatal:syntax error: line 6 before or near @name
> print((a_at_extra)@name
> -------------------^
>
> fatal:error in statement
>
> =====
> Bruce Lunde
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> Stennis Space Center, MS
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