Folks,

I can't seem to find this in the fancy new IDL documentation.
Does anyone know if IDL 8.0 supports netCDF 4.0 file reading
and/or writing?

Thanks,

David


-- 
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thos speakest truth.")

Hi David,

Yes, IDL 8.0 supports NetCDF 4.0. Here is the info from the "What's
New":

Updates to HDF5 1.8.4 and NetCDF 4.1 libraries, and CDF library
(version 3.3)
 =95  Added the following new NetCDF routines:
 =95  NCDF_DIMIDSINQ
 =95  NCDF_FULLGROUPNAME
 =95  NCDF_GROUPDEF
 =95  NCDF_GROUPNAME
 =95  NCDF_GROUPSINQ
 =95  NCDF_GROUPPARENT
 =95  NCDF_NCIDINQ
 =95  NCDF_VARIDSINQ

You can also do:

IDL> help,'ncdf',/dlm
** NCDF - IDL NetCDF support (not loaded)
    Version: 4.1.1, Build Date: JUL 30 2010, Source: ITT Visual
Information Solutions
    Path: C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL\IDL80\bin\bin.x86\idl_netcdf.dll

Cheers,
Chris
ITTVIS