From 56c4132989117f1c9345b280df26dbb8966cfbbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Burlen Loring <bloring@lbl.gov>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 20:43:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] metadata add get for static c-arrays

---
 core/teca_metadata.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/teca_metadata.h b/core/teca_metadata.h
index ff8187866..4272af62a 100644
--- a/core/teca_metadata.h
+++ b/core/teca_metadata.h
@@ -131,6 +131,10 @@ class teca_metadata
     int get(const std::string &name,
         T *val, unsigned int n) const;
 
+    template<typename T, unsigned int N>
+    int get(const std::string &name, T (&val)[N]) const
+    { return this->get(name, val, N); }
+
     // copy prop values from the named prop into the passed in vector.
     // return 0 if successful
     template<typename T>