Re: variable name

Just following up on Dennis' comment about file names in NetCDF...
>From http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/noaa_coop/coop_cdf_profile.html we
find this statement:
Variable names:
Variable names should begin with a letter and be composed of letters,
digits, and underscores. It is recommended that variable names be
case-insensitive implying that the same case-insensitive name should
not be used for multiple variables within a single file.

gerry

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Dennis Shea <shea@ucar.edu> wrote:
> x = f->$"PM2.5_emssion"$
>
> or
> vname = "PM2.5_emssion"
> x = f->$vname$
>
> =================================
> Note: I do not thin that a valid netCDF name can contain a '.'
>
> On 11/01/2012 11:01 AM, Luo, Chao wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am processing data of Netcdf format files by NCL script. One of
>> variable names (PM2.5_emssion) can not be read by NCL. It seems the
>> issue is related to variable name, which includes dot "." (
>> fatal:syntax error: line 7 in file read.ncl before or near .5 , var =
>> f->PM2.5). I was wondering if there is any way to read the data.
>>
>> Thanks much,
>>
>> CL
>>
>>
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