In response to Jonathan's question on paths (or full names) > Is the convention of paths to name groups and elements something that you are > defining here as part of CF, rather than built into netCDF?
I just wanted to mention that full names are supported (to varying degrees) by the netCDF C and Java libraries and the ncdump and nccopy utilities. Documentation, as far as I've found, is a bit sparse and scattered. In the C library, you can find a group given its full name, and with a group (ncid) you can get its full name. But that doesn't work for variables or dimensions. The Java library provides similar functionality for groups, variables, and dimensions. The ncdump and nccopy utilities support full paths in the `-v vars` option. It also mentions relative paths but its really more partial path matching, e.g., `g/v` would match `/g0/g/v` and `/g1/g/v` and `/g/v`. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/144#issuecomment-413317406
