Re: Lost long_names / units

From: Michael Notaro <mnotaro_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:54:40 -0500

I tried addfile with "w" to modify the file and that worked great.
No dimensions, units, or long_names were lost.

But there still remains a bug in the usual method of opening a nc
file and writing the variables to a new file. Hopefully that can be
looked into.

Mike

On May 6, 2009, at 3:53 PM, David Brown wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> This doesn't sound like the correct documented behavior. Can you
> supply a test case NetCDF file that will demonstrate the problem
> using the sample code below?
> Thanks,
> -dave
>
>
> On May 6, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Michael Notaro wrote:
>
>> If I open a file, retrieve all the variables, and write them
>> to a new file, some of the variables lose their long_names and units
>> in the process, mainly integer variables. Please see below.
>> Any idea how to maintain all the variables' info, including
>> long_name, dimensions, units, etc?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> a=addfile("originalfile.nc","r")
>> .....
>> ......
>> out=addfile("newfile.nc","c")
>> do i=0,numb-1
>> v = a->$names(i)$
>> out->$names(i)$ = v
>> delete(v)
>> end do
>>
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