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Re: 941215: ncvarid don't give error message.

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  • Subject: Re: 941215: ncvarid don't give error message.
  • Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 09:12:37 -0700
>Keywords: 199412151547.AA12407 netCDF ncvarid

Hi Bernward,

> I found a little bug in ncvarid:
> 
> If the netCDF file only contains global attributes, but no variables,
> ncvarid don't give an error message. The return status -1 is correct.
> 
> This is caused by the following code in var.c (function ncvarid):
> 
>       if(handle->vars == NULL)
>               return(-1) ;
>       
> 
> If a program checks the return code, this doesn't matter, but if a
> program uses ncopts=NC_FATAL;, it will not be aborted.

Thanks for reporting this.  We'll fix it in the next release.

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