Hello Nan, et al., > Any of these special characters, other than the '_', would probably > cause problems for code that deals with NetCDF files. The '.' is > used in Matlab for access to structures, and the '@' is used to > identify a variable as a function handle. There are work-arounds, > but they likely wouldn't add efficiency or elegance to our code.
I have a grave feeling that I'm missing your point here, but the attribute names are just strings which need to be split according to a string-valued delimiter. There is no interaction with the syntax of the processing language, surely? > I agree with Roy that CF should be the default namespace in a CF > compliant file, and that this problem belongs to groups that are writing > extensions. I aggree with this, too. All the best, David -- David Hassell National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB, U.K. Tel : 0118 3785613 Fax : 0118 3788316 E-mail: d.c.hass...@reading.ac.uk _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
