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SDnametoindex/sfn2index
int32 SDnametoindex(int32
sd_id
, char *
sds_name
)
sd_id
IN:
SD interface identifier returned from
SDstart
sds_name
IN:
Name of the dataset to index
Purpose
Determines the index assigned to the scientific dataset defined by
sds_name
.
Return value
Returns an
sds_index
if successful and FAIL (or -1) otherwise.
Description
The
sds_index
can be passed to
SDselect
to return an
sds_id
for the named dataset. This routine is case sensitive and will not accept wild cards. In addition, this routine will only return the
sds_index
for the first dataset with the given name.
FORTRAN
integer function sfn2index(sd_id, sds_name)
integer sd_id
character* (*) sds_name
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