Re: [ferret_users] Is ferret able to output variables without converting to uppercase

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Janeen,
There is not currently a way to define a variable in Ferret and keep the 
lower-case characters in the name on output; in Ferret v6.0 we can keep 
the case of variables that came in from a NetCDF file, and I think it 
should be possible for us to implement the same kind of logic for the 
names of user-defined variables; so look for that in a future release.

One solution for you would be to call NCO operations to fix up your file 
after Ferret has created it. These are available at 
http://nco.sourceforge.net/

Janeen wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm using the list command in a Ferret script to write out a variable 
> to a NetCDF file.  The variable name is an input parameter to the 
> script and consists of upper and lower case characters.  The script 
> re-grids the variable onto a different axis, then writes out the 
> variable+suffix to the output NetCDF file.  In writing the re-gridded 
> variable out, the variable name is converted to all uppercase 
> characters plus my suffix.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to instruct Ferret not to change 
> the case of the variable name?  I'm using    FERRET v5.80
>
> Cheers!
>
> Janeen

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