Accessing variables with symbols in the name

[dpabon]

I have a Netcdf where the names of several variables contain-

if I do:

pfts_test.GRASS-MAN

Of course, this fails:

ERROR: ArgumentError: GRASS not found in Dataset
Stacktrace:
 [1] getindex(x::Dataset, i::Symbol)
   @ YAXArrays.Datasets /Net/Groups/BGI/people/dpabon/bin/julia_packages/packages/YAXArrays/au5n4/src/DatasetAPI/Datasets.jl:121
 [2] getproperty(x::Dataset, k::Symbol)
   @ YAXArrays.Datasets /Net/Groups/BGI/people/dpabon/bin/julia_packages/packages/YAXArrays/au5n4/src/DatasetAPI/Datasets.jl:118
 [3] top-level scope

if I do:

pfts_test."GRASS-MAN".properties

It fails:

ERROR: MethodError: no method matching getproperty(::Dataset, ::String)
Closest candidates are:
  getproperty(::DataFrames.DataFrameColumns, ::AbstractString) at /Net/Groups/BGI/people/dpabon/bin/julia_packages/packages/DataFrames/LteEl/src/abstractdataframe/iteration.jl:210
  getproperty(::DataFrameRow, ::AbstractString) at /Net/Groups/BGI/people/dpabon/bin/julia_packages/packages/DataFrames/LteEl/src/dataframerow/dataframerow.jl:303
  getproperty(::DataFrames.GroupKey, ::AbstractString) at /Net/Groups/BGI/people/dpabon/bin/julia_packages/packages/DataFrames/LteEl/src/groupeddataframe/groupeddataframe.jl:690
  ...

if I do:

get_var_attrs(pfts_test, "GRASS-MAN")

it fails:

ERROR: MethodError: no method matching get_var_attrs(::Dataset, ::String)
Closest candidates are:
  get_var_attrs(::YAXArrayBase.ZarrDataset, ::Any) at /Net/Groups/BGI/people/dpabon/bin/julia_packages/packages/YAXArrayBase/R6Frw/src/datasets/zarr.jl:11
  get_var_attrs(::YAXArrayBase.NetCDFDataset, ::Any) at /Net/Groups/BGI/people/dpabon/bin/julia_packages/packages/YAXArrayBase/R6Frw/src/datasets/netcdf.jl:52
  get_var_attrs(::YAXArrayBase.GDALDataset, ::Any) at /Net/Groups/BGI/people/dpabon/bin/julia_packages/packages/YAXArrayBase/R6Frw/src/datasets/archgdal.jl:94

Is there some way around, or is this a bug?

I greatly appreciate your help. Daniel

[meggart]

You can do pfts_test["GRASS-MAN"]

[dpabon]

Thanks, Fabian

pfts_test["GRASS-MAN"].properties

Works!