961002: How to write multplie strings using C++ interface

Miki,

> To: address@hidden
> From: "R. Miki Moore 423-9712" <address@hidden>
> Subject: C++ and putting more than one element
> Organization: LLNL
> Keywords: 199610020509.AA09727

In the above message you wrote:

> I am a newbie with netcdf and am grappling with writing a list of
> names to a netcdf file. I can't seem to get anything but the first
> name into the file. I'd like to write name1, then name2; rather
> than concatenate all the names into one lonnnng string and
> write the whole thing in one blast..is this possible? Am I somehow
> making an error in my parameters to the var->put  call?
> //
> // simple.cc
> // miki moore
> // 9/96
> // writes string variables
> //
> 
> #include <iostream.h>
> #include <fstream.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <NetCDF/netcdf.hh>
> int main(int argc,char **argv)
> {
>   // create output file
>   NcFile outfile(argv[1],NcFile::Replace);
> 
>   if (! outfile.is_valid()) {
>     cout << "file not valid: " << argv[1] << endl;
>     ::exit(1);
>   }
> 
>   NcDim* numObs = outfile.add_dim("numObs",30);
>   NcDim* strLength = outfile.add_dim("strLen",32);
> 
>   NcVar* var = outfile.add_var("stnName",
>                                ncChar,
>                                numObs,
>                                strLength);
> 
>   if (var == NULL) {
>     cout << "failed to add var" << argv[2] << endl;
>     ::exit(1);
>   }
> 
> // first string
>   int length = 30;
>   char* data = new char[length+1];
>   strcpy(data,argv[2]);
> 
>   NcBool ncError;
>   ncError = var->put(data,0,length);

You should use an edge-length of `1' in the above rather than `0' for
the most slowly varying dimention.

>   if (! ncError) { cout << "error putting " << endl; ::exit(1); }
> 
>   delete data;
> 
> // second string
>   char* data2 = new char[length+1];
>   strcpy(data2,argv[3]);
>   int record = atoi(argv[4]);

At this point, you should use the NcVar member function `set_cur()' to
set the start corner for the next string; otherwise, you'll just rewrite
the first string.  E.g.

    var->set_cur(1, 0);

I'm unsure what the `record' variable is.  You use it in the next call
as (basically) the number of strings (which I find hard to believe
becuse the string buffer is dimensioned only for one).

Also, don't you mean to write `data2' rather than `data'.

> 
>   ncError = var->put(data,record,length);
>   if (! ncError) { cout << "error putting " << endl; ::exit(1); }
> 
>   delete data2;
> }

Please let me know if this helps.

--------
Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>