cdflib.inquireAttrgEntry - Information about entry in attribute with global scope

Syntax

Description

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

Input Arguments

Output Arguments

Examples

Open the example CDF, and then get information about entries associated with a global attribute in the file.

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

% Any of the first three attributes have global scope.
attrscope = cdflib.getAttrScope(cdfid,0)

attrscope =

GLOBAL_SCOPE

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

dtype =

cdf_char


numel =

    23


% Clean up
cdflib.close(cdfid);

clear cdfid

References

This function corresponds to the CDF library C API routine CDFinquireAttrgEntry. 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.inquireAttr | cdflib.inquireAttrEntry

Tutorials

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

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