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20020405: getatt in netcdf-perl

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  • Subject: 20020405: getatt in netcdf-perl
  • Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 15:30:59 -0700
Rorik,

>Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:04:04 -0900
>From: Rorik Peterson <address@hidden>
>Organization: ?
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: getatt in netcdf-perl
>Keywords: 200204052202.g35M2Ma14647

The above message contained the following:

> I am new to the perl interface for netCDF and I'm using the test.pl
> script in the distribution to learn from.  I want to get a variable's
> attribute that is a string.  I only see a way to get it as an ASCII
> array.  Currently I loop through the array with perl's chr to fix it,
> but there must be a better way.  What am I missing? Transcript follow.

I'm afraid that there is no better way than what you are doing.

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