Mike, Thanks. Looks interesting, but I suppose I forgot to mention (blush), I'm dealing with HDF4. Poking around a bit, I see hdfls and friends, but they don't seem to provide as much detail as h5dump does. I suppose I could try and write it as hdf5 and then use h5toh4 and back convert it...
I can probably figure it out, but I was hoping for something like a tree diagram of what's there etc. Oh well, I guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend :-( Bruce On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:19:14 -0500, Michael Jackson wrote: > h5dump may be what you are looking for. It is part of the standard HDF5 > distribution. > ___________________________________________________________ > Mike Jackson Principal Software Engineer BlueQuartz > Software Dayton, Ohio > mike.jack...@bluequartz.net > www.bluequartz.net > > On Feb 22, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Bruce Bowler wrote: > >> Hi, I'm a newb at writing HDF files but have a small bit (really small) >> of experience reading HDF files in IDL and MATLAB. >> >> I have an HDF file that contains some data. I need to create a new >> file that has different data but has the same "structure" as the extant >> file. By "structure", I mean vgroups, vdata, etc. Ideally I'd be >> creating this new file using MATLAB. It needs to be the same so a bit >> of 3rd party software that I don't have the source for can process the >> file properly. >> >> Is there a tool that will describe, in a fair bit of detail, the >> contents of the extant file such that I can figure out what calls I >> need to make to write the new one? >> >> Thanks. >> Bruce >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. >> Hdf-forum@hdfgroup.org >> http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. Hdf-forum@hdfgroup.org http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
