@adigitoleo, you are simply seeing an inconsistency in **ncdump**. Recent
version of this utility are not consistent for displaying embedded newlines in
attributes. This varies with the type of the internal file format. Notice
that true newline characters are displayed with the escape sequence "**\n**"
inside quotes, in all cases. However, **netcdf-3** and **netcdf4-classic**
formats also add the extra visual line break. From **ncdump -hs**:
:A = "line 1\n",
"line 2" ;
:_Format = "netCDF-4 classic model" ;
Whereas **full netcdf-4** format does not include the extra visual break:
:A = "line 1\nline 2" ;
:_Format = "netCDF-4" ;
The first style is traditional and was ubiquitous for several years, until
support for string data type evolved in one of the early netcdf-4 library
versions. I believe that the CF readability policy was conceived early, and
was based only on the traditional netcdf-3 behavior.
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