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Hi Justin, Sorry it has taken so long to respond to your question. Was this a very old version of ncgen, from before 1997? I haven't seen an occurrence of that error message since the version of ncgen released with netCDF 2.4.1, in March 1996, which included the following in its RELEASE_NOTES: - Fixed ncgen bug in filling one-dimensional string variables when specified with multiple values that should be concatenated, eliminating spurious "too many values for this variable" message. If you got the message from a recent version of ncgen, could you make the netCDF file available to us, so we could reproduce and provide a fix for the bug? Thanks. --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ITM-891458 Department: Support netCDF Priority: High Status: Closed