Re: [netcdfgroup] PDL::NetCDF reading char data

[Doug Hunt <dhunt@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brice:  Could you send me a complete example (with sample netCDF file 
and perl source, pared down to essentials?

I'll take a look at it.

--Doug

dhunt@xxxxxxxx
Software Engineer
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Brice Lambi wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having some problems reading character data from a netcdf file using
> PDL::NetCDF.  This is my example nc file (from ncdump):
>
> netcdf testnc {
> dimensions:
>        recNum = UNLIMITED ; // (3 currently)
>        char_len = 256 ;
> variables:
>        char char_data(recNum, char_len) ;
>                char_data:long_name = "some char data" ;
> data:
>
> char_data =
>  "some char data 0",
>  "some char data 1",
>  "some char data 2" ;
> }
>
> I will call "get" like this:
>
> $recn = $nc->dimsize("recNum");
> $tmp = $nc->get("char_data", [0,0], [$recn, 256]);
> print $tmp;
>
> And this is the output I see:
>
> [ 'some char data 0' '' '' '' ]
>
> Why is it only getting the first value?  I've verified that $recn is 3.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Brice Lambi
>
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