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Re: 19990918: additional characters 3.5beta

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  • Subject: Re: 19990918: additional characters 3.5beta
  • Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:33:52 -0600
>To: address@hidden,
>To: Rolf Mueller <address@hidden>,
>To: Juergen Ankenbrand <address@hidden>
>From: "R.Bauer" <address@hidden>
>Subject: additional characters 3.5beta
>Keywords: 199909181551.JAA20989

Hi Reimar,

> Looking at your text about changes.
> 
> I'm really pleased to see these changes:
> 
> 
>    * Permit additional characters in netCDF names in CDL: any of ".",
>      "@", "#", "[", and "]" are now permitted in names, in addition to
>      alphanumeric characters, "_", and "-".
> 
> Did you also permit the additional characters "(" and ")"  ?

No, sorry, we didn't figure out how to implement that, since "(" and
")" are already part of the CDL syntax for declaring the shape of
netCDF variables, so the grammar to permit them in variable names
would be ambiguous.  We looked into trying to use an escape character
for permitting such characters in CDL names, but didn't get much
further with that idea.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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