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Russ Rew: Re: 980302: netCDF dimension name problem

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  • Subject: Russ Rew: Re: 980302: netCDF dimension name problem
  • Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 14:34:48 -0700
>From: Carl Dierking <address@hidden>
>Subject: netCDF dimension name problem
>Organization: WSFO Juneau, AK
>Keywords: 199803021949.MAA06663 netCDF name

Carl,

When I was referencing mentions of the naming restrictions on netCDF
components, I forgot to include the primary reference from the User's
Guides in "Section 2.1.1 Naming Conventions":

    The names of dimensions, variables and attributes consist of
    arbitrary sequences of alphanumeric characters (as well as
    underscore '_' and hyphen '-'), beginning with a letter or
    underscore. (However names commencing with underscore are reserved
    for system use.) Case is significant in netCDF names.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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