Re: Netcdf for C and Perl

• To: Naveenta Anand <anand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Netcdf for C and Perl
• From: Doug Hunt <dhunt@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:52:47 -0600

Naveenta:  I have used netCDF with both C and perl on DEC alpha with
no problems.  One point:  the perl library sits on top of the C library, 
so there is no conflict.  libnetcdf.a is used for C code, but it is
also compiled into the perl netCDF module.

You can use the perl netCDF module from the unidata page, but
I would encourage you to look into PDL::NetCDF, which is a more
natural (IMHO) interface to netCDF from perl using the PDL (perl data
language)
which allows one to manipulate Dense, N-dimensional, typed matrices in
perl
quickly and efficiently.

For more info, see:

http://pdl.perl.org/ or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdl/

and visit CPAN (the perl archive network) for PDL::NetCDF:

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/PDL/

Regards, 

  Doug Hunt

Naveenta Anand wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Can Netcdf library for C coexist with Netcdf library for Perl on the same
> system? Any difficulties or experiences?? I have a dec alpha Unix system on
> which I will probably have to do it.
> 
> Thanks...
> Naveenta

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