20030203: Not a netCDF data type or _FillValue type mismatch

Claudia,

>Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:09:22 -0500 (EST)
>From: Claudia Schmid <address@hidden>
>Organization: NOAA/AOML
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20030203:Not a netCDF data type or _FillValue type mismatch 

The above message contained the following:

> the variable is declared as character*14 and the netcdf type is NF_CHAR in
> nf_def_var

In that case, change

    iret = nf_put_att_text(ncid, CALIBRATION_DATE_id,
    *'_FillValue', 14, '00000000000000')

to

    iret = nf_put_att_text(ncid, CALIBRATION_DATE_id,
    *'_FillValue', 1, '0')

The fill-value for a netCDF variable of type NF_CHAR is a single character.
The netCDF data model doesn't support aggregate fill-values.

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