[netCDF #NFZ-507170]: Writing data to netcdf

Greetings!

In this case, since you only need to store a single character, it's definitely 
more efficient to use a 'char' (character) variable. To do that, instead of 
`str`, pass `'c'` to `createVariable()`, like I do in this example:

    nc = Dataset('test_char.nc', 'w')
    nc.createDimension('time', 4)
    var = nc.createVariable('ident', 'c', ('time',))
    var[:] = [' ', 'R', 'G', 'R']
    nc.close()

Hope this helps!

Ryan

> Good afternoon Ryan,
> 
> I ran into an issue writing an array of characters (G for gps or R for
> GLONASS) into my netcdf file. reading online it sounds like i might need to
> convert the array in some way but everything i find online seems to point
> to changing a string to a character. My understanding is that I already
> have characters. Can you advise?
> 
> the array
> [image: Screen Shot 2021-08-11 at 2.36.08 PM.png]
> 
> 
> my setup of the variable
> [image: Screen Shot 2021-08-11 at 2.36.52 PM.png]
> 
> 
> and my attempt to load the data to the variable
> [image: Screen Shot 2021-08-11 at 2.37.13 PM.png]
> 
> my attempts to add this variable are commented out right now so that i
> could check that other work on my code while waiting to resolve this issue.


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NFZ-507170
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Critical
Status: Closed
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