Hi Jim,

On Nov 26, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Rowe, Jim 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hello, I am trying to re-create the types below from an Hdf5 file created by 
another software package (output below was generated from h5dump) but am not 
quite sure on how to define them.  I am using h5dotnet wrappers (though c 
examples would help).

1)      This appears to be a fixed-length string.  It seems straightforward 
enough, but the h5dotnet docs suggest using ascii character arrays which give a 
different type signature.  Any reason the h5t_c_s1 type cannot be used in c#?
2)      Not clear what this type is and how the sizes are specified or mean.
May be the following C examples will help.

For the fixed size attribute type please see 
http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api/hdf5-examples/1_8/C/H5T/h5ex_t_stringatt.c.

Please replace lines

    filetype = H5Tcopy (H5T_FORTRAN_S1);
    status = H5Tset_size (filetype, SDIM - 1);
with

    filetype = H5Tcopy (H5T_C_S1);
    status = H5Tset_size (memtype, SDIM);

to get the type similar to yours.

For the second type, please see 
http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api/hdf5-examples/1_8/C/H5T/h5ex_t_vlenatt.c.

You will need to use H5T_C_S1 base type in the H5Tvlen_create calls and play 
with data initialization.

Please let me know if you need further help.

Elena
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Thanks.
--Jim


ATTRIBUTE "attribute1" {
         DATATYPE  H5T_STRING {
            STRSIZE 6;
            STRPAD H5T_STR_NULLTERM;
            CSET H5T_CSET_ASCII;
            CTYPE H5T_C_S1;
         }
         DATASPACE  SCALAR
         DATA {
         (0): "valuea"
         }
      }

      ATTRIBUTE "attribute2" {
         DATATYPE  H5T_VLEN { H5T_STRING {
            STRSIZE 1;
            STRPAD H5T_STR_NULLTERM;
            CSET H5T_CSET_ASCII;
            CTYPE H5T_C_S1;
         }}
         DATASPACE  SIMPLE { ( 5 ) / ( 5 ) }
         DATA {
         (0): ("f", "i", "e", "l", "d", "1"), ("f", "i", "e", "l", "d", "2"),
         (2): ("f", "i", "e", "l", "d", "3"), ("f", "i", "e", "l", "d", "4"),
         (4): ("f", "i", "e", "l", "d", "5")
         }
      }
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