[ncl-talk] Including "string" variable in new NetCDF file

[Dennis Shea]

No. To my knowledge, users need not do anything different.

natCDF-3 supported characters only.

netCDF-4 (==> HDF-5) supports both character and string types.

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 3:42 PM Toni Klemm <toni-klemm at tamu.edu> wrote:

> Hello!
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> 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 *cannot* be set to
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> *setfileoption*("nc","Format”,"LargeFile")
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> but must be set to
>
> *setfileoption*("nc","Format","NetCDF4")
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> 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, …).
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Toni
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> *Toni Klemm, Ph.D.*Postdoctoral Research Associate
> Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
> College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
> Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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