Re: Grib problem

On 7/5/2012 5:12 PM, Bob Simons wrote:
> On 7/5/2012 3:56 PM, John Caron wrote:
> > hi bob:
> >
> > attribute names can have embedded spaces. OTOH, theres no good reason
> > why those 2 do. Is it a problem?
>
> I don't think attribute names can have embedded spaces. I didn't find 
> it earlier, but I did just now:
> http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.6/cf-conventions.html#idp4775248 
>
> says
> "Variable, dimension and attribute names should begin with a letter 
> and be composed of letters, digits, and underscores."

good point. netcdf allows them, but not CF. ill change them to underscores.