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Bryan, > From: "E. Bryan George" <address@hidden> > Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. > Keywords: 199510251936.AA02335 netCDF variable length dimensions In the above message you wrote: > Greetings, > > I am very interested in the netCDF format, but have a pressing need on a > sizeable project to deal with storage/retrieval of variable-length array > sequences - a set of variable-order speech feature vectors, to be > specific. I need random access to the same as well. > > Naturally, seeing your mention of support for ragged arrays/structures > as a "future work" item is intriguing, but I need to decide on a file > format pretty quickly. I'm afraid if netCDF goes by the boards now, it > will be hard to redirect toward it later once much data has been > processed and file conversion becomes necessary. > > Could you give me an idea of how far you've gotten with ragged array > support? If you're ready for beta testing, we would be very interested. > > Thanks in advance for the information. > > Bryan We have not yet begun to implement support for ragged arrays. The concept (and a possible implementation) was developed by Harvey Davies in consultation with us. Harvey is coming here about a week for, I believe, five months, to work on ragged array support and other netCDF-related things. I'm afraid that's as time-specific as I can be. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us. -------- Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>