
<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="">Thanks, Dennis! That’s good to know.<br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">

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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 13, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Dennis Shea <<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu" class="">shea@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">No. To my knowledge, users need not do anything different.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">natCDF-3 supported characters only.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">netCDF-4 (==> HDF-5) supports both character and string types.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 3:42 PM Toni Klemm <<a href="mailto:toni-klemm@tamu.edu" class="">toni-klemm@tamu.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;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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