Re: How to write string to netcdf output

Please someone correct me if I am wrong because I am no expert, but I
don't believe strings are a data type supported by netCDF files. This
dates back to FORTRAN not accepting variable-length character strings.

What you need to do is translate the string into an array of character
values and then output that array to the netCDF file.

Hope this helps,

Kyle Wilcox
kyle.wilcox_at_noaa.gov

Jax (Guangxia) Cao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have used the following to write numerical arrays to netcdf and was
> successful,
> ......
> a=addfile(fname, "c")
> a->lwu10m = w10
> a->lwulow = wlw
> ....
>
> I tried similiar to write string arrays to the netcdf output
> but failed and I approached other ways but not successful. I would
> appreciate any suggestion.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jax
>
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Received on Wed Jul 12 2006 - 06:43:21 MDT