From 00a98f2321680e86d1f202b66b69dd86bb07184e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Howard Soh <hsoh@seneca.rap.ucar.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 14:59:20 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] #2640 Do not initialize metadata_name at find_meta_name

---
 src/tools/other/ioda2nc/ioda2nc.cc | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/tools/other/ioda2nc/ioda2nc.cc b/src/tools/other/ioda2nc/ioda2nc.cc
index 4a607afdde..622d949f58 100644
--- a/src/tools/other/ioda2nc/ioda2nc.cc
+++ b/src/tools/other/ioda2nc/ioda2nc.cc
@@ -1262,13 +1262,15 @@ bool check_missing_thresh(float value) {
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 ConcatString find_meta_name(string meta_key, StringArray available_names) {
-   ConcatString metadata_name = meta_key;
-   StringArray alt_names = conf_info.metadata_map[meta_key];
-
-   for(int idx =0; idx<alt_names.n(); idx++) {
-      if(available_names.has(alt_names[idx])) {
-         metadata_name = alt_names[idx];
-         break;
+   ConcatString metadata_name;
+   if (available_names.has(meta_key)) metadata_name = meta_key;
+   else {
+      StringArray alt_names = conf_info.metadata_map[meta_key];
+      for (int idx =0; idx<alt_names.n(); idx++) {
+         if (available_names.has(alt_names[idx])) {
+            metadata_name = alt_names[idx];
+            break;
+         }
       }
    }
    return metadata_name;