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20010525: How to read arrays correctly

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  • Subject: 20010525: How to read arrays correctly
  • Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 08:27:06 -0600
Stefan,

>Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:22:09 +0200
>From: Stefan Maehlmann <address@hidden>
>Organization: Aerodynamisches Institut Aachen
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20010523: How to read arrays correctly
>Keywords: 200105231132.f4NBWZp12260

The above message contained the following:

> this means that i have to know if the .nc file is written with the netcdf 
> fortran of c interface, because the sequence the data are stored is not 
> compatible. Is this right?

No. You do not need to know how the netCDF file was created in order to
read it. The elements of an array in a netCDF file are always stored in
the same order as the elements of the in-memory array -- regardless of
whether the C or Fortran API is used to access the data. The innermost
(i.e. most rapidly varying) dimension is always the innermost dimension
in both C and Fortran.

I suggest that you carefully examine the examples in the email message
that I previously referenced.

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Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>