Attributes as arrays why ?

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• Subject: Attributes as arrays why ?
• From: Reimar Bauer <r.bauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 12:46:16 +0200

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Hi,

I got yesterday a netCDF data file which has an arrays on  global
attributes.

I believe this is not a good idea to set something different as scalars
as attributes. There is no dimension information stored about attribut
sizes and what kind of coordination parameter should be used.


At the moment I don't know if it's a bug or a feature.

If arrays on attributes are common the fileformat does not describe
them. The next question is if it's allowed to use arrays is there a
limitiation for the size or did a large attribute array corrupt the
other data?

regards

Reimar



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Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-I)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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