[netcdfgroup] How to represent this data in NetCDF

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] How to represent this data in NetCDF
• From: Jürgen Lorenz Simon <juergen_simon@xxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:34:02 +0200

Hi,

I need to represent a number of 'objects' detected in a NetCDF data set. The 
objects basically comprise of N vectors of dimension D. 

1       x1      y1      z1
 .
 .
N       xN      yN      zN

The trouble is, that N varies from object to object. I was taking a look at the 
C-API for variable length arrays, but couldn't really make heads nor tails of 
it. Also, I have been using the C++ API heavily and it does not seem to have 
any notion of variable length arrays.

Any other (possibly backward compatible) way I can tackle this one?

Kind Regards,
Ion

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