Re: [netcdfgroup] Fortran90 interface

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• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Fortran90 interface
• From: Karsten Bolding <karsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:09:01 +0000

Hi Dave

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:06:09 -0600, Dave Allured wrote:
> Karsten,
>
> That function has five arguments.  Your function call has six arguments.  
> I believe this will cause that exact error message.

You are right I should have checked that.

I actually find it a pitty that there is a difference between the F77
and F90 argument list for this function.

I used to allocate and array like:
integer :: dims(4)

that could be re-used like:
dims(1) = lon_dim
iret = nf_def_var(ncid,'lon',NF_REAL,1,dims,lon_id)

dims(1) = lon_dim
dims(2) = lat_dim
dims(3) = time_dim
iret = nf_def_var(ncid,'sst',NF_REAL,3,dims, sst_id)
call check_err(iret)

i.e. the number of dimensiosn for a specific variable is given
explicitly and not determined by the size of the dimids vector.

Instead I now have to do like:
integer :: dims_3(3)
integer :: dims_4(4)

>
> This is a Fortran 90 thing.  When a generic interface is used, any  
> mismatch in number of arguments, arg type, or dimensionality can trigger 
> a "no matching specific function" error.
>
> Dave Allured
> CU/CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC)
> http://cires.colorado.edu/science/centers/cdc/
> NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Climate Analysis Branch (CAB)
> http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/psd1/
>

Karsten

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