Re: passing multiple variables as a set

We hope to fully implement the NCL 'list' type soon. This is a
container type that can hold data of arbitrary types and shapes,
including other lists, allowing for tree-type structures.
  -dave

On Jun 8, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Lunde, Bruce N CIV NAVOCEANO, NP1 wrote:

> Hi Rob, The best I've been able to do is attach
> items to a variable (either a variable you are actually
> using or a dummy one such as VAR=True) by means of
> attributes. You can attach all data types as attributes,
> as well as 1D and 2D arrays, e.g. VAR@lat2d = lat2d,
> VAR@name = "dummy", ... You can then pass this around.
>
> I believe you are limited to this modified NetCDF data
> model, so you cannot do mutliple level structures as you
> may be used to.
>
> Any other ideas on methods to do this ?
>
> Bruce
>
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>> From: Rob Nicholas <rnicholas@atmos.washington.edu>
>> Subject: passing multiple variables as a set
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>> Does NCL have any provision for packaging multiple variables together
>> in some sort of "container" that can be passed as a single variable?
>> Matlab achieves something similar to this with its "structure" data
>> type, although Matlab doesn't really handle metadata as NCL does so
>> nicely.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
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