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------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:17:45 -0600 From: Russ Rew <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Subject: Re: Bug inside CHARACTER array example: >To: address@hidden >From: Guntram =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sei=DF?= <address@hidden> >Subject: Bug inside CHARACTER array example >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200209180822.g8I8Mt105521 Hi Guntram, > since a few weeks we decided to use NetCDF as one of our preferred direct > access formats. > Now I tried the first time, to write an array of CHARACTER-Strings into a > NetCDF file. > I used the example code inside your FORTRAN77 documentation under > 7.15 Reading and writing CHARACTER String values. > > I found the following code segment being wrong, it doesent work correctly: > > ! write txval into tx netCDF variable in record 3 > TSTART(1) = 0 ! start at beginning of variable > > When I changed it to : > TSTART(1) = 1 ! start at beginning of variable (changed to one) > > it worked! > > So please change the example on your documentation page > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidef/guidef-12.html#HEADING12-1332 > if possible. Thanks very much for pointing out this bug in our documentation. It's fixed now. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu ------- End of Forwarded Message