Re: retrieve the path from a variable that references a file

Hi Álvaro,

There's no easy way to do this in NCL unfortunately. We do already have a ticket for this
request, and I'll append your email to it. Hopefully we can get this for the next release.

--Mary

On Jul 23, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Álvaro M. Valdebenito B. wrote:

> Dear NCL community,
>
> To make a long story short,
> I want to implement a work around the between
> different output types from addfile/addfiles (file/list).
>
> For that I would like to promote file types (variable that
> references, i.e. typeof(var).eq."file") to a list of one file type.
>
> Is there a way to retrieve the path/filename from a file type variable?
>
> print and printVarSummary will display the information,
> but it is not a attribute nor a dimension
>
> ff=addfile("some/path/file.nc","r")
> printVarSummary(ff)
> Variable: ff (parameter)
> (0)
> filename: file
> path: some/path/file.nc
> [snip]
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Álvaro.
>
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