Re: 20000928: Testing for exisiting dimensions (fwd)

Matt,

Steve wrote:

> Your program halts because the default error-handling action of the
> netCDF library is to abort on error. ...

Actually aborting on error was the default error-handling action of
the old netCDF-2 interface, on which netCDFPerl is based.  The default
error-handling action of the current netCDF-3 interface is to silently
return an error indication.

>                                  ...  To override, call the following
> first:
> 
>     NetCDF::ncopts(NetCDF::VERBOSE);
> 
> This will cause the netCDF library to print a message to standard error
> and then continue.

... or, since you probably don't want to have a message printed, call
it with a zero argument to suppress both the printing of messages and
the fatality of errors.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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