Re: Should NetCDF character attributes be null-terminated

• To: "Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Should NetCDF character attributes be null-terminated
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:56:09 -0600

Mark,

In my opinion, the best thing to do is to write code that is very
conservative about what it writes into a netCDF dataset and very
liberal about what it reads. In this specific case, I wouldn't write
the terminating NUL character. On reading, however, I would check for a
terminating NUL (regardless of language) and do the appropriate thing
for the language (ensure either its presence or absence).

Nothing in the netCDF library depends on a terminating NUL.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>

• References:
  • Should NetCDF character attributes be null-terminated
    • From: Mark Hadfield