netcdf.defGrp

Create group in NetCDF file

Syntax

childGrpID = netcdf.defGrp(parentGroupId,childGroupName)

Description

childGrpID = netcdf.defGrp(parentGroupId,childGroupName) creates a child group with the name specified by childGroupName, that is the child of the parent group specified by parentGroupId

Input Arguments

`parentGroupId`	Identifier of NetCDF file, returned by `netcdf.create` or `netcdf.open`, or of a NetCDF group, returned by `netcdf.defGrp`.
`childGroupName`	Character vector or string scalar specifying the name that you want to assign to the group.

Output Arguments

childGrpID

Identifier of a NetCDF group.

Examples

This example creates a NetCDF dataset and then defines a group.

ncid = netcdf.create('myfile.nc','netcdf4');
childGroupId = netcdf.defGrp(ncid,'mygroup');
netcdf.close(ncid);

References

This function corresponds to the nc_def_grp function in the NetCDF library C API.

For copyright information, read the files netcdfcopyright.txt and mexnccopyright.txt.

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