Re: Memory allocation

Dave Allured wrote:
> Dennis Shea wrote:
>> ...
>> I am sure you have your reasons for creating ASCII.
>> It is the least efficient format for storage.
>
> ASCII or "text" is great for compatibility with many softwares that
> do not support Netcdf, fortran binaries, and so on. I could go on,
> but I will just say that I hope that NCL and other programming
> languages continue to support reasonable modes of text file I/O.

Yes,of course.

>
>> I think a better procedure for writing ascii is
>>
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/write_matrix.shtml
>
> Does this function bypass the allocation of NCL unique strings?

Yes. write_matrix passes the *interger/float/double* array
directly to a function that creates the file.

If
> so, it would be great if that could be added to documentation of
> this function, and also to FAQ's about string allocation problems.
> Thank you!

>
> Dave Allured
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