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

[Toni Klemm]

Thanks, Dennis! That’s good to know.

Toni


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> On Nov 13, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
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> No. To my knowledge, users need not do anything different.
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> natCDF-3 supported characters only.
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> 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 <mailto:toni-klemm at tamu.edu>> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 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 
> 
> setfileoption("nc","Format”,"LargeFile")
> but must be set to
> 
> setfileoption("nc","Format","NetCDF4")
> 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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