Sorry how do you mean, can you elaborate with some C++ syntax? Do you
intend to use the H5A function. Sorry I am a bit n00b here.


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Werner Benger <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Sounds as if creating three datasets of type double, named "TimeStamp",
> "Property1" and "Property2" would do the job.
>
> Reading them into python as a matrix is a python issue.
>
>       Werner
>
>
>
> On 05.05.2014 19:03, Binh-Minh Ribler wrote:
>
>  You're welcome.  I'm sorry but I don't think I'm able to help on this
> question.  Hopefully, some other users on the Forum will understand and
> give some suggestions.
>
>
>  Binh-Minh
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Hdf-forum 
> <[email protected]><[email protected]>on
>  behalf of Gaurav Bhalla
> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Monday, May 05, 2014 12:18 PM
> *To:* HDF Users Discussion List
> *Subject:* Re: [Hdf-forum] Writing a string to an HDF5 file.
>
>  Thanks a lot for the note. I am actually the same command, in visual
> express 2010 in a C++ console app, and it seems to work.
>
>  I am basically writing columnar data that is of the form
>
>  TimeStamp    Property1      Property2
>
>
>   Now my question is how do I create a file header, in other words, if I
> want to write the following array to the file...
>
> ['TimeStamp', 'Property1', 'Property2']
>
> ...and tag it to the columns for ease of later use ( I am planning to
> analyze the matrix in Python). How to do that? And I am looking to do that
> C++.
>
>
>  dset = H5Dcreate(file, "dset1", H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE, file_space,
> H5P_DEFAULT, plist, H5P_DEFAULT);
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Binh-Minh Ribler 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>  Hi Gaurav,
>>
>>
>>  If you're using the C++ API, your C statement
>>
>> dset = H5Dcreate(file, "dset1", H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE, file_space,
>> H5P_DEFAULT, plist, H5P_DEFAULT);
>>
>>
>>  would be something like this in C++:
>>
>> H5::DataSet dset = file.createDataSet("dset1", PredType::NATIVE_DOUBLE,
>> data_space, plist);
>>
>> You can find it here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/cpplus_RM/classH5_1_1CommonFG.html#a12a4af21ca0231d4f2c4008b12177bb1
>>
>>
>>  Is that what you're looking for?
>>  Binh-Minh
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* Hdf-forum <[email protected]> on behalf of
>> Gaurav Bhalla <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Monday, May 05, 2014 11:04 AM
>> *To:* HDF Users Discussion List
>> *Subject:* Re: [Hdf-forum] Writing a string to an HDF5 file.
>>
>>    hanks a lot for your note, I appreciate your help.
>>
>>  One more follow up question, I guess I am just hoping that you may be
>> able to help me. The issue is that I am basically writing the file from C++
>> and then processing it downstream in Python.
>>
>>  What would be the analogous statements in C++?
>>
>>  I use this to create,
>>
>>  dset = H5Dcreate(file, "dset1", H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE, file_space,
>> H5P_DEFAULT, plist, H5P_DEFAULT);
>>
>>  I am guessing I should be able to somehow use the H5A function here
>> also?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Mitchell, Scott - Exelis <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  There is no way to tag individual columns (i.e. fields in a compound
>>> data type). And you certainly can't insert strings where doubles are
>>> expected. What I've done is to tag the dataset with an H5A attribute (an
>>> array of strings, one per field). In my case each string is the Unit
>>> associated with the field.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Hdf-forum [mailto:[email protected]] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Gaurav Bhalla
>>> *Sent:* Sunday, May 04, 2014 10:40 PM
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* [Hdf-forum] Writing a string to an HDF5 file.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am trying to write an HDF5 file. The file basically contains a large
>>> timeseries matrix in the following format
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> TimeStamp    Property1      Property2
>>>
>>> I have managed to write the data successfully, I created a dset and used
>>> the H5Dwrite function.
>>>
>>> Now my question is how do I create a file header, in other words, if I
>>> want to write the following array to the file...
>>>
>>> ['TimeStamp', 'Property1', 'Property2']
>>>
>>> ...and tag it to the columns for ease of later use ( I am planning to
>>> analyze the matrix in Python). How to do that?
>>>
>>> I tried to use H5Dwrite to write a string array but failed, I guess it
>>> wanted consistent datatypes, so it just wanted floats, which is the
>>> datatype for my data. Then I read about this metadata thing, but I am a bit
>>> lost as to how to use it? Any help would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> A related side question is can the first row of a matrix be a string and
>>> the others rows contain doubles?
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