<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I need to include a string variable (names of counties of several US states) in a new netCDF file, and my understanding is that the setfileoption for the file <b class="">cannot</b> be set to </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 12pt; font-family: courier; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 15px; border-color: transparent;" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">setfileoption</strong>("nc","Format”,"LargeFile")</pre><div class="">but must be set to</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 12pt; font-family: courier; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 15px; border-color: transparent;" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">setfileoption</strong>("nc","Format","NetCDF4")</pre><div class="">for so that string variables can be saved in the NetCDF file. The rest of the file contains regular numeric data (integer values with a defined missing value and some metadata), all of which I converted from a .csv file. I’ve never changed this file option before, and I was wondering if there is something I need to be aware of when processing and working with the rest of the file (doing simple math like averages, sums, …). </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you very much in advance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Toni</div><div class=""><div class="">
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