Netcdf Toolkit - ncreadatt

Function File: val = ncreadatt(filename,varname,attname)

Return the attribute attname of the variable varname in the file filename.

Global attributes can be accessed by using "/" or the group name as varname. The type of attribute is mapped to the Octave data types. (see ncinfo).

Example

Read global attribute ’creation_date’

 d = ncreadatt('test.nc','/','creation_date')
 

Read atribute ’myattr’ assigned to variable mydata.

 d = ncreadattr('test.nc', 'mydata', 'myattr');
 

See also: ncinfo,ncwriteatt.