re: perl package (fwd)

Macire,

Sorry this response has take so long but the message kept ending up in the 
Doug's spam box. If you need more information, let's know.

Robb...


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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:15:43 -0600 (MDT)
From: Doug Hunt <address@hidden>
To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden>
Subject: re: perl package

Hi Robb:  My package (PDL::NetCDF) can create netCDF output files.  I just read 
the email you forwarded (which I had not seen before) and did not see anything 
about perl in the question.  There are surely dozens of ways to convert ASCII 
to netCDF, the right answer probably depends upon when software or language is 
already being used and if any specific decoders are already available for the 
ASCII and netCDF formats required.

You can get PDL::NetCDF from CPAN at:

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/PDL/DHUNT/PDL-NetCDF-0.94.tar.gz

In order to install, you need the PDL module first:

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/PDL/PDL-2.4.4.tar.gz

The advantage of using PDL::NetCDF over the normal perl netCDF interface is 
that netCDF variables are mapped to compact N-dimensional PDL variables instead 
of perl lists.

Regards,

  Doug

address@hidden
Software Engineer IV
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Doug Hunt wrote:
>
> > Robb:  I never saw this request.  Was there any reason to believe that 
> > he/she wanted a perl reader?  I can't tell that from the email.
> >
> > --Doug
> >
> > address@hidden
> > Software Engineer IV
> > UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Robb Kambic wrote:
> >
> > > Doug,
> > >
> > > Did you answer this request?  The only reason I'mm asking, is that I wasn't 
> > > cc on the response.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > RObb....
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm a graduate student in the computer science dept at Howard
> > > University. I'm working on a project with upper-air data. I want to
> > > know if there is any application/decoder that can convert a raw ASCII
> > > text format file into NETCDF?
> > >
> > > Please let me know!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Macire Diakite
> > > Howard University Graduate Student, Computer Science
> > > CS Graduate Board Vice President
> > >
> > >   [Edit Ticket Post]
> > >
> > > E-mail: address@hidden
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
> > > Software Engineer III			   Univ. Corp for Atmospheric 
> > > Research
> > > address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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> Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
> Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
> address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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