Re: Question about netCDF perl examples

Hi Russ,

it seems like I have confused the fortran and C order in the comment. 
Shall I send the program once again, or can you exchange 'C' and 
'fortran' there.

Best regards,

Heiko

Russ Rew wrote:
> Hi Heiko,
>
> A netCDF user who was looking at your simple_xy_wr.pl perl example from
>
>   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/examples/programs/
>
> found this comment confusing:
>
> # note that ncdump uses fortran order, while perl/PDL uses C order indices
> # data(x,y) in ncdump switches to data(y,x) in perl
>
> The CDL output of ncdump actually uses C order (last dimension varying
> fastest).  I think PDL may use Fortran order (first dimension varying
> fastest), at least according to this document:
>
>    http://search.cpan.org/~dhunt/PDL-NetCDF-0.92/netcdf.pd
>
> where it says:
>
>    ... the 'put' function will write variables in FORTRAN order (as
>    before) and will reverse the dimension names so they fit this
>    order
>
> I'm leaving your example alone, but if you want to clarify or change
> the comment, please let me know.  Thanks!
>
> --Russ

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