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[netCDF #UAK-176631]: ncdump with -x option fails

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  • Subject: [netCDF #UAK-176631]: ncdump with -x option fails
  • Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:23:49 -0600
Hi Peter,

> When the attached nc4 file is dump using ncdump -h, and a new file is
> created using ncgen, the variable attributes that contain a string data
> type prefix are not instantiated in the file created by ncgen.

This is also related to the fact that the string type is not part of the netCDF 
classic
model, and the default output foor ncgen is classic model netCDF files, 
although I'm
surprised that it just omitted the string attributes, rather than an emitting 
an error.

It works fine for me when I use the "-k netCDF-4" option to ncgen to explicitly 
specify 
output of a netCDF-4 format file:

  ncgen -k netCDF-4 -o tmp.nc tmp.cdl

where tmp.cdl is the output of ncdump on your netCDF-4 file, and tmp.nc is the 
resulting 
netCDF-4 file.

--Russ

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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: UAK-176631
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: High
Status: Closed