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station and retrieve the different WIGOS fields needed for the output BUFR. The column "wigosLocalIdentifierCharacter" must be of type TEXT , so that the python function that reads the csv forces this column to be of type object and
can show the leading 0 ( 01027 for instance) otherwise, this column is treated as integer and the leading zero is removed.
The rest of the information is copied from the input BUFR to the output BUFR by using codes_bufr_copy_data(ibid,obid) that copies the common keys from the ibid to obid.
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