cdflib.getAttrNum

Attribute number, given attribute name

Syntax

attrNum = cdflib.getAttrNum(cdfId,attrName)

attrNum = cdflib.getAttrNum(cdfId,attrName) returns the number of an attribute in a Common Data Format (CDF) file.

`cdfId`	Identifier of a CDF file, returned by a call to `cdflib.create` or `cdflib.open`.
`attrName`	Character vector or string scalar specifying the name of an attribute.

attrNum

Numeric value that identifies the attribute. Attribute numbers are zero-based.

Open the example CDF and get the attribute number associated with the SampleAttribute attribute.

cdfId = cdflib.open("example.cdf");

attrNum = cdflib.getAttrNum(cdfId,"SampleAttribute")

attrNum =

     0

% Clean up
cdflib.close(cdfId)
clear cdfId

This function corresponds to the CDF library C API routine CDFgetAttrNum.
To use this function, you must be familiar with the CDF C interface. You can access the CDF documentation at the CDF website.