[ncl-talk] Bug report: fbindirwrite

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

NCL team,

The documentation for fbindirwrite says that the second argument may be of
any type.  This fails for arguments of type character and string:

Platform = Mac OS 10.9.4, x86_64
NCAR Command Language Version 6.2.0

ncl 0> str = "abcdef"
ncl 1> fbindirwrite ("test.bin", str)
fatal:Argument type mismatch on argument (1) of (fbindirwrite) can not
coerce
fatal:["Execute.c":8565]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1

ncl 0> chars = stringtochar ("abcdef")
ncl 1> fbindirwrite ("test.bin", chars)
fatal:Argument type mismatch on argument (1) of (fbindirwrite) can not
coerce
fatal:["Execute.c":8565]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1

Numerics work fine.  Please add this to the bug list with low priority.  I
only found this while looking at that mixed types problem.  Thank you.

--Dave
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