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On 7/5/2012 5:12 PM, Bob Simons wrote:
On 7/5/2012 3:56 PM, John Caron wrote:hi bob: attribute names can have embedded spaces. OTOH, theres no good reason why those 2 do. Is it a problem?I don't think attribute names can have embedded spaces. I didn't find it earlier, but I did just now: http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.6/cf-conventions.html#idp4775248says"Variable, dimension and attribute names should begin with a letter and be composed of letters, digits, and underscores."
good point. netcdf allows them, but not CF. ill change them to underscores.