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[netCDF #YEC-124697]: NetCDF Data Types

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  • Subject: [netCDF #YEC-124697]: NetCDF Data Types
  • Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:31:50 -0600
Hi Lee,

First, sorry it has taken so long to get to this, both Ed and I were on spring
break last week.

Have you tried calling the function nf90_put_var_text to put character data?
That function is
supposed to be called automatically by nf90_put_var, which is overloaded to
call lots of
different internal functions such as nf90_put_var_text depending on the types
of values
given to it, but maybe there's something wrong with the overloading.  The
function is in
f90/netcdf_text_variables.f90:

 function nf90_put_var_text(ncid, varid, values, start, count, stride, map)
     integer,                         intent( in) :: ncid, varid
     character (len = *),             intent( in) :: values
     integer, dimension(:), optional, intent( in) :: start, count, stride, map
     integer                                      :: nf90_put_var_text

     integer, dimension(nf90_max_var_dims) :: localStart, localCount,
     localStride

along with some other functions like nf90_put_var_1D_text,
nf90_put_var_2D_text, ...

If it turns out it works to call one of these internal functions but not to
call
nf90_put_var with a character variable, that's a bug we'll have to fix.  I'll
try to put together a test for this soon, but it's definitely not a "feature"!

The netCDF-4 release would currently have the same bug and the same fix should
work,
if this turns out to be a bug.

You're right, that's not a good diagnostic to return for this problem, but I
need to
duplicate the error first before I know what's going on ...

--Russ


Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YEC-124697
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed