Re: getting dimension length from a file

Hi Keith,

I am wondering if

  dim1=fin&name_of_dimension
  ndim1=dimsizes(dim1)

would work.

saji

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* Keith Lindsay <klindsay_at_ucar.edu> [2008-05-07 10:24:23 -0600]:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a NetCDF file that has some named dimensions in it whose size I 
> would like to get inside an NCL script I'm writing.
> 
> The catch is that the file doesn't have any variables that contain these 
> dimensions. Because of this I don't see how I can use getfilevardimsizes 
> to get the dimension sizes. There are no variables to call it with.
> 
> A potentially promising NCL function is getfiledimsizes, which returns 
> the sizes of all named dimensions in a file. But I don't see how to 
> connect the dimension sizes returned from getfiledimsizes with 
> particular dimension names. I don't see a corresponding getfiledimnames 
> function.
> 
> If I were doing this in Fortran, I would use NF_INQ_DIMID and 
> NF_INQ_DIMLEN, but I don't see how to translate that into NCL.
> 
> Anyone see how I get size of a dimension out of a file that doesn't have 
> a corresponding variable?
> 
> Thanks, Keith
> 
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