Re: Should NetCDF character attributes be null-terminated

• To: "Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Should NetCDF character attributes be null-terminated
• From: Jim Secan <jim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 07:52:39 -0700

At 12:24 PM 08/03/01 +1200, Mark Hadfield wrote:
>Hello all
>
>I started writing the following as a bug report to the IDL people, but now
>I'm not so sure. Perhaps the netCDF experts could give a ruling on this
>matter:
>
>    When an application writes text data to a netCDF file attribute,
>    should it (may it, must it) terminate the data with a null character?

Mark...

I've had to deal with this from Fortran programs as well, and I'd certainly
like to see it "fixed."  I hacked around this by writing a short utility
routine that checks a string to see if it terminates with a '\0' character.
 If so, the null is replaced by a space.  An engineering approach, perhaps,
but it cured what ailed me.

Jim
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