cdflib.getNumgAttributes - Number of attributes with global scope

Syntax

Description

ngatts = cdflib.getNumgAttributes(cdfId) returns the total number of global attributes in a Common Data Format (CDF) file. cdfId identifies the CDF file.

Examples

Open the example CDF and find out how many global attributes are in the file:

cdfid = cdflib.open('example.cdf');

% Determine the number of global attributes in the file.
numgAttrs = cdflib.getNumgAttributes(cdfid)

numgAttrs =

    3

% Clean up
cdflib.close(cdfid);

References

This function corresponds to the CDF library C API routine CDFgetNumgAttributes. To use these functions, you must be familiar with the CDF C interface. Read the CDF documentation at the CDF Web site. For copyright information, see the cdfcopyright.txt file.

See Also

cdflib.getNumAttributes

Tutorials

• Importing Common Data File Format (CDF) Files
• Exporting to Common Data File Format (CDF) Files