cdflib.inquireAttrEntry - Information about entry in attribute with variable scope

Syntax

Description

[datatype,numElements] = cdflib.inquireAttrEntry(cdfId,attrNum,entryNum) returns the data type and the number of elements for an attribute entry in a Common Data Format (CDF) file.

Input Arguments

Output Arguments

Examples

Open example CDF, and then get information about entries associated with an attribute in the file:

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

% The fourth attribute is of variable scope.
attrscope = cdflib.getAttrScope(cdfid,3)

attrscope =

VARIABLE_SCOPE

% Get information about the first entry for this attribute
[dtype numel] = cdflib.inquireAttrEntry(cdfid,3,0)

dtype =

cdf_char


numel =

    10


% Clean up
cdflib.close(cdfid);

clear cdfid

References

This function corresponds to the CDF library C API routine CDFinquireAttrzEntry. 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.getAttrScope | cdflib.inquireAttr

Tutorials

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

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