Re: read variable by name

Hi Ufuk,

If I understand correctly, then "getvar" could look something like
this, although you will have to pass in the file id:

undef("getvar")
function getvar(file_id, varname)
begin
   if(isfilevar(file_id,varname)) then
     return(file_id->$varname$)
   else
     print("getvar: error: variable '" + varname + "' doesn't exist
in file.")
     return(-1)
   end if
end

--Mary

On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:24 AM, Ufuk Utku Turuncoglu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to read variables in a netcdf file by using its names. Is there
> any function to do that? It will basically get the one argument
> (variable name as string) and returns the values of it. For example,
>
> lat = getvar("lat")
>
> Thanks,
>
> --ufuk
>
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