Thank you David.
On 6/26/2014 12:50 PM, David Hassell wrote:
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
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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:10:44 +0200
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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
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