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Re: netCDF and complex numbers

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  • Subject: Re: netCDF and complex numbers
  • Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:18:58 -0700
Piotr,

Whoops, I wrote:

> From FORTRAN, you should just be able to access complex arrays directly
> this way, without any kind of skipping, since the storage order for a
> complex array is with the real and imaginary parts of each value in
> successive locations.  Thus from FORTRAN with the above structure, you
> should be able to read all eight complex values into a single complex
> array with one call to NCVGT:
> 
>       COMPLEX C(8)
>       INTEGER NCID, VARID, RCODE
>       ...
>       CALL NCVGT(NCID, VARID, 1, 8, C, RCODE)
> 
> and similarly for higher-dimensional arrays.

but it's not quite that transparent.  To get all 16 real values for the
8 complex numbers, you need to

       CALL NCVGT(NCID, VARID, 1, 16, C, RCODE)

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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