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Re: 970811: NetCDF v2.4 on Linux (Empty netcdf names)

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  • Subject: Re: 970811: NetCDF v2.4 on Linux (Empty netcdf names)
  • Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 12:33:18 -0600
> > To: address@hidden
> > From: "Nigel O'Brian" <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Minor bug in NetCDF 2.4
> > Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Sydney
> > Keywords: 199708110100.TAA07093

> > You can define a variable called "", but accessing the
> > variable in the resulting file causes a segmentation
> > fault. According to the documentation "" should not be
> > accepted.

Russ replies:
> However, the current version still permits the definition of a variable
> with the name "".  I think we should not continue to permit this as a
> variable name, even if the Perl and Python interfaces would support it,
> because applications and visualization systems for netCDF data might
> have problems with empty names.  Also their is no CDL syntax to declare
> a variable with the name "".

Fixed.
Minor change to libsrc/string.c,
added test to nc_test/test_put.m4.

-glenn