Hello Brigitte, Yes - netCDF string valued attributes can contain spaces, commas and many (any?) other characters, such as +, -, _, (, ), etc. So,
institute_id = "INSTITUTE1, INSTITUTE2, and INSTITUTE3"; is fine. For a few attributes (like standard_name) a limited character set is required to be CF compliant. One last thought: I don't know exactly what your data are, but perhaps the CF attribute "institution" would be a better choice of attribute name (http://cfconventions.org/1.6.html#description-of-file-contents)? Hope that helps. All the best, David ---- Original message from Brigitte Koffi (12PM 26 Jun 14) > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:10:44 +0200 > From: Brigitte Koffi <brigitte.koffi-lefei...@jrc.ec.europa.eu> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 > Thunderbird/17.0.3 > To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > Subject: [CF-metadata] String attribute syntax > > Dear all > > Can string attributes contain blanks or comma characters? > For instance, in case of netCDF files from multiple institutes, can one > define "INSTITUTE1, INSTITUTE2, and INSTITUTE3" > as "institute_id"? > > Thank you for your help, > > Brigitte > > > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata -- 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 : +44 118 3785613 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
