Re: The significance of trailing blanks in attributes...

Hi ROland:

Blanks should now be trimmed for convention parsing in 2.2.12. If you get a 
chance to test this, I would appreciate it.

John 

Roland Schweitzer wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have some code based the the Java netCDF library (tested against 
> netcdfUI-2.2.10.jar).  It depends on the interpretation of files 
> conforming to COARDS and CF-1.0.  When a file contains attributes that 
> are significant to the convention, but have trailing blanks, the "grids" 
> are not recognized.  E.g.
>
> nxt:long_name = "longitude                                  " ;
> nxt:short_name = "lon                                   " ;
> nxt:units = "degrees_east                       " ;
>
>
> Apparently some users have used trailing blanks to pad the netCDF header 
> so they can change attributes without rewriting the entire file.  This 
> trick means that the netCDF Java library can't interpret the conventions 
> correctly.
>
> Is it reasonable that the convention attributes be interpreted with the 
> trailing blanks and null bytes removed?  Would that sort of change show 
> up in a revised library soon?
>
> If not I will try to attack this problem in myself.
>
> Roland