NCDF_ATTRIBUTE
The pupose of this NCDF_Attribute object is to store information about a netCDF global or variable attribute. The object is principally used as a utility routine for the NCDF_FILE object. Given the attribute name, the object will acquire additional information about the attribute from the netCDF file containing the attribute.
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File I/O
IDL> attrObj = Obj_New('NCDF_ATTRIBUTE', attrName, parent, VARNAME=varName)
attrName: The case sensitive name of a netCDF attribute that is stored in the netCDF file. (Input and required.) parent: The object reference (NCDF_FILE object) of the netCDF file. In other words, the object reference of the file that contains this attribute. (Input and required.)
varName: If this is a variable attribute, this is the case sensitive name of the variable that the attribute is attached to. (Input and required for variable attributes.) Note that a variable object reference may be used in place of the variable name.
The following methods are available. Each is documented in front of the method. attrName = attrObject -> GetName() propertyValue = attrObject -> GetProperty(attrProperty) attrValue = attrObject -> GetValue() attrObject -> ParseAttribute
Written by: David W. Fanning, 3 Feb 2010.