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A.4 vAttributes Section

The vAttributes section contains the names of the vAttributes in the CDF. Any rEntries or zEntries for these vAttributes are defined in the rVariables/zVariables sections (following the definition of the corresponding variable). The format of the vAttributes section is as follows:

#VARIABLEattributes

[<attribute-name>
 <attribute-name>
 <attribute-name>
        .
        .
        .
 <attribute-name>]

Where <attribute-name> is a vAttribute name delimited with a character not appearing in the name itself (e.g., "VALIDMIN" or 'Units'). The delimiting characters are not part of the vAttribute name in the CDF. There may be zero or more vAttribute names. (There is no limit on the number of attributes that a CDF may have.)

An example vAttributes section follows:

#VARIABLEattributes

  "FIELDNAM"
  "VALIDMIN"
  "Units"



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