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EOS_GD_ATTRINFO

This function returns number type and number of elements (count) of a grid attribute.

Syntax

Result = EOS_GD_ATTRINFO(gridID, attrname, numbertype, count)

Return Value

Returns SUCCEED (0) if successful and FAIL (–1) otherwise.

Arguments

gridID

Grid id (long) returned by EOS_GD_CREATE or EOS_GD_ATTACH.

attrname

Attribute name (string).

numbertype

A named variable that will contain the number type (long) of an attribute.

count

A named variable that will contain the number of total bytes in an attribute (long).

Keywords

None

Examples

In this example, we return information about the ScalarFloat attribute:

status = EOS_GD_ATTRINFO(pointID, "ScalarFloat", nt, count)

Version History

 

5.2

Introduced