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netcdf.inqGrpName - Retrieve name of group

Syntax

groupName = netcdf.inqGrpName(ncid)

Description

groupName = netcdf.inqGrpName(ncid) returns the name of a group specified by ncid.

Input Arguments

ncid

Identifier of NetCDF file, returned by netcdf.create or netcdf.open, or of a NetCDF group, returned by netcdf.defGrp.

Output Arguments

groupName

Text string specifying name of a group. The root group has the name '/'.

Examples

This example opens the NetCDF sample file and gets the names of groups in the dataset. 

 ncid = netcdf.open('example.nc','nowrite');
 name = netcdf.inqGrpName(ncid);
 netcdf.close(ncid);

References

This function corresponds to the nc_inq_grpname function in the NetCDF library C API.

For copyright information, read the netcdfcopyright.txt and mexnccopyright.txt files.

See Also

netcdf | netcdf.inqGrpNameFull

  

 

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