Empty element variable field in Exodus files produced by Norma

[ikalash]

It looks like there is an empty element variable field produced by Norma. You can see it for example in the examples/overlap/static-different-steps output .e file. If you ncdump one of them and search for name_elem_var then go all the way to the end, the output looks like:

 "stress_yz_8",
  "stress_xz_8",
  "stored_energy",
  "" ;

I don't think this is a Julia Exodus thing, but I could be wrong. It's not really a huge deal except when you try to exodiff files, exodiff doesn't like the empty string in the file.

[lxmota]

I don't see where that empty string might be written to the Exodus file. Weird. Need to look more closely.

[ikalash]

Does it happen on MacOS? I guess if it doesn't it COULD be an issue with the Exodus for Julia 11 being broken.

[lxmota]

Yes, I see it on the Mac too with Julia 1.10. Odd.

[ikalash]

I agree that it's odd. I looked in time_integration.jl and am not seeing any spurious write_name() calls. All the existing ones pass an appropriate string. Very strange.

[ikalash]

I have confirmed that this problem has been resolved - closing. Thanks @cmhamel for fixing it!