netcdf.inqGrpName

Retrieve name of group

Syntax

groupName = netcdf.inqGrpName(ncid)

groupName = netcdf.inqGrpName(ncid) returns the name of a group specified by ncid.

ncid

Identifier of NetCDF file, returned by netcdf.create or netcdf.open, or of a NetCDF group, returned by netcdf.defGrp.

groupName

Character vector containing the name of the group specified by ncid. The root group has the name '/'.

This example opens the NetCDF sample file and gets the names of groups in the dataset.

 ncid = netcdf.open('example.nc','nowrite');
 name = netcdf.inqGrpName(ncid);
 netcdf.close(ncid);

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

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