Availability: ncap2, ncbo, ncea,
ncra, ncwa Short options: None |
NC_SHORT
(two bytes) to NC_DOUBLE
(eight bytes).
Type conversion is automatic when the language carries out this
promotion according to an internal set of rules without explicit user
intervention.
In contrast, manual type conversion refers to explicit user commands to
change the type of a variable or attribute.
Most type conversion happens automatically, yet there are situations in
which manual type conversion is advantageous.