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------- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:07:29 -0600 From: Russ Rew <address@hidden> To: David Han <address@hidden> Subject: Re: 20020805: Sample C Programs for Reading and Writing a netCDF file? >To: address@hidden >cc: address@hidden >From: David Han <address@hidden> >Subject: Sample C Programs for Reading and Writing a netCDF file? >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200208051831.g75IVZK13882 Hi David, > I just downloaded and installed the binary distribution of the netCDF > 3.5 library for Mac OS X. I've never used netCDF before and am > wondering whether you have any sample programs (written in C) that > reads and writes a netCDF file. If you do, I'd appreciate very much > for getting a copy from you. The C User's Guide http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidec has lots of examples in the forms of program fragments, but no complete examples. The source for the program ncdump.c in src/ncdump/ncdump.c is a complete example of a netCDF program that opens and reads an arbitrary netCDF file, but it's too comprehensive for a simple example, though the function do_ncdump() in that file might be instructive. There is another complete example in the netCDF source distribution, in the file src/cxx/example.c, but it uses the old netCDF-2 interface; it's there for comparison with the equivalent C++ example in that directory, in src/cxx/example.cpp. The version 2 C interface is still supported, but we document and recommend that you use the netCDF-3 interface instead. I've put an equivalent netCDF-3 example in: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/examples/example1.c Another way to get a simple example of a C program that creates a netCDF dataset is to first create a text file describing the structure of the data, then use the "ncgen" netCDF utility with the "-c" option to generate a C program that can be compiled to create the corresponding netCDF file. To see how to do this, consult Chapter 10, "NetCDF Utilities": http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidec/guidec-15.html#HEADING15-0 For other examples, you might check some of the open source software that uses netCDF and that is listed in http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/software.html for example the NCO package. Eventually I hope to get around to making some more complete and instructive equivalent examples using all of the C, C++, Fortran, and Java interfaces ... --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu ------- End of Forwarded Message