I have an IDL script that creates a netCDF-4 file with a bunch of variables in it. I want one of them to be an array of fixed-length strings. I would like the file to recognize that it is a fixed-length string if possible. When I try to use the /STRING option to ncdf_vardef, I typically get an error. Does anyone know how to do this? I can successfully write single characters using the /CHAR option, but not fixed-length strings. Thanks! Chris O'Dell