How can delete a variable within a netcdf file

hello all, I have a problem, I need to delete a variable from a file with *. nc ... I've only found a command to delete file attributes within ... but the entire variable, not ... To delete an attribute is used netcdf.delAtt .... if someone could help me?

thank you very much Monica

Answer 1

[Kelly Kearney]

Not a Matlab solution, but if you have access to NCO ( http://nco.sourceforge.net/), issued from a terminal window:

 ncks -x -v varname in.nc out.nc

or within Matlab:

 system('ncks -x -v varname in.nc out.nc')

Answer 2

[Ashish Uthama]

"Attributes are more dynamic than variables or dimensions; they can be deleted and have their type, length, and values changed after they are created, whereas the netCDF interface provides no way to delete a variable or to change its type or shape." - http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf.html

The only way would be to copy over everything, but the variable you want to delete, to a new file.

Answer 3

[Monica]

hello, thanks for your answers. At the end of the file have not deleted, I have overwritten .. changing step by step attributes, data, names and dimensions ...