Re: [netcdfgroup] Perl netCDF-4 support?

• To: Cathy Smith <cathy.smith@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Perl netCDF-4 support?
• From: Doug Hunt <dhunt@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:49:43 -0600 (MDT)

Hi Cathy:  I maintain the PDL::NetCDF library, which interfaces with the
Perl Data Language extension for perl (see http://pdl.perl.org/).  This
gives much higher performance than the normal perl netcdf interface since
compact 'PDL' objects (n-dimensional matrices) are passed back instead of
perl arrays (stored internally as high-overhead linked lists).

I've just received a contribution from a user of a patch to
PDL::NetCDF to add netCDF-4 support.  I've yet to test it out, but this
will probably mean basic netCDF-4 support will be available in PDL::NetCDF
within a few weeks.

Regards,

  Doug Hunt

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

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Cathy Smith wrote:

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Hi:

We use the Perl netCDF module pretty extensively in our code. Will it be
able to support netCDF-4? I looked around and didn't see anything
specific. I believe the Perl module uses the much older version 2 API
and I'm not sure how supported it is.

Thanks,
Cathy Smith
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NOAA/ESRL PSD and CIRES CDC
303-497-6263
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/cathy.smith/
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