<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Thanks Mary. This works.<div><br></div><div>Chao<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Mary Haley" <haley@ucar.edu><br><b>To: </b>"Chao Luo" <chao.luo@eas.gatech.edu><br><b>Cc: </b>"ncl-talk Talk" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, September 11, 2015 8:11:28 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ncl-talk] change global attribute in netcdf file<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Chao,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I didn't see any response to this; I apologize for the delay.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Whenever you have "non-standard" variable names like this, you can use the special $"..."$ syntax to work around it:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">att_glb = True</div><div class="gmail_default">att_glb@$"VAR-LIST"$= name_value;</div><div class="gmail_default">fileattdef( fout, att_glb )</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Note that this syntax *only* works when you use it for an attribute name, a dimension name, or a coordinate variable. Some examples:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">x!$"dim-0"$ = "lat" ; as a dimension name</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">x&$"latitude-0"$ = (/10,20,30,40/) ; as a coordinate variable name</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You can't use it like this:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">$"myvar-0"$ = 58.1</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Luo, Chao <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chao.luo@eas.gatech.edu" target="_blank">chao.luo@eas.gatech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dear NCL users,</span></font><div style="font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I am try to change global attribute in netcdf file. What I did is:</div><div style="font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">att_glb = True</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">att_glb@VAR-LIST = name_value;</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">fileattdef( fout, att_glb )</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I happened the error at att_glb@VAR-LIST, It was caused by hyphen sign between VAR and LIST.</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">in this attribute. Any suggestions to solve this problem would be very appreciated!</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks in advance,</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Chao</font></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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