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authorFrank Baker <fbaker@hdfgroup.org>1999-05-03 21:54:10 (GMT)
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DatatypesEnum.html EnumMap.gif Added enumeration datatypes -- First pass, only minimal editing. Intro paragraph in Datatypes.html; details in DatatypesEnum.html. EnumMap.gif is a figure for DatatypesEnum.html. Tools.html Added new h5toh4 supported object and data type. H5.intro.html Corrected transposed "start coordinates" in Example 1.
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@@ -1150,7 +1150,21 @@ H5Tinsert (surf_id, "y", HOFFSET(surf_t,y), complex_id);
</table>
</center>
- <h2>7. Sharing Data Types among Datasets</h2>
+ <a name="Datatypes_Enum">&nbsp;</a>
+ <h2>7. <a href="DatatypesEnum.html">Enumeration Data Types</a></h2>
+
+ An HDF5 enumeration data type is a 1:1 mapping between a set of
+ symbols and a set of integer values, and an order is imposed on
+ the symbols by their integer values. The symbols are passed
+ between the application and library as character strings and all
+ the values for a particular enumeration type are of the same
+ integer type, which is not necessarily a native type.
+ <p>
+ Details of enumeration data types and the related functions
+ are discussed on a separate
+ <a href="DatatypesEnum.html">Enumeration Data Types</a> page.
+
+ <h2>8. Sharing Data Types among Datasets</h2>
<p>If a file has lots of datasets which have a common data type
then the file could be made smaller by having all the datasets
@@ -1196,7 +1210,7 @@ hid_t dset4 = H5Dcreate (file, "dset4", t2, space, H5P_DEFAULT);
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<a name="Datatypes-DataConversion">
- <h2>8. Data Conversion</h2>
+ <h2>9. Data Conversion</h2>
</a>
<p>The library is capable of converting data from one type to
@@ -1553,7 +1567,6 @@ H5Tregister(H5T_PERS_SOFT, "cus2be",
conversion path whether that conversion path was actually used
or not.
-<<<<<<< Datatypes.html
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@@ -1621,7 +1634,7 @@ And in this document, the
</address>
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+Last modified: 30 April 1999
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