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
>
> ---- Original message from Brigitte Koffi (12PM 26 Jun 14)
>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:10:44 +0200
>> From: Brigitte Koffi <Brigitte.Koffi-Lefeivre at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
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>> To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
>> 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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