diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/html/Datatypes.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/html/Datatypes.html | 36 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/html/Datatypes.html b/doc/html/Datatypes.html index 75bc57e..50e0ab7 100644 --- a/doc/html/Datatypes.html +++ b/doc/html/Datatypes.html @@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ type may fail if the precesion must be decremented and the data type is of the <code>H5T_OPAQUE</code> class or the <code>H5T_FLOAT</code> bit fields would extend beyond the - significant part of the type. Increasing the size of an - <code>H5T_STRING</code> automatically increases the precision + significant part of the type. Adjusting the size of an + <code>H5T_STRING</code> automatically adjusts the precision as well. On error, <code>H5Tget_size()</code> returns zero which is never a valid size. @@ -388,9 +388,33 @@ programming language: C usually null terminates strings while Fortran left-justifies and space-pads strings. This property defines the storage mechanism and can be - <code>H5T_STR_NULL</code> for C-style strings or - <code>H5T_STR_SPACE</code> for Fortran-style - strings. <code>H5Tget_strpad()</code> returns + + <p> + <dl> + <dt><code>H5T_STR_NULLTERM</code> + <dd>A C-style string which is guaranteed to be null + terminated. When converting from a longer string the + value will be truncated and then a null character + appended. + + <br><br> + <dt><code>H5T_STR_NULLPAD</code> + <dd>A C-style string which is padded with null characters + but not necessarily null terminated. Conversion from a + long string to a shorter <code>H5T_STR_NULLPAD</code> + string will truncate but not null terminate. Conversion + from a short value to a longer value will append null + characters as with <code>H5T_STR_NULLTERM</code>. + + <br><br> + <dt><code>H5T_STR_SPACEPAD</code> + <dd>A Fortran-style string which is padded with space + characters. This is the same as + <code>H5T_STR_NULLPAD</code> except the padding character + is a space instead of a null. + </dl> + + <p><code>H5Tget_strpad()</code> returns <code>H5T_STR_ERROR</code> on failure, a negative value (all successful return values are non-negative). </dl> @@ -1364,7 +1388,7 @@ H5Tregister_soft ("cus2be", H5T_INTEGER, H5T_INTEGER, cray_ushort2be); <address><a href="mailto:koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu">Quincey Koziol</a></address> <!-- Created: Thu Dec 4 14:57:32 EST 1997 --> <!-- hhmts start --> -Last modified: Thu Jun 18 13:59:12 EDT 1998 +Last modified: Fri Aug 7 10:24:52 EDT 1998 <!-- hhmts end --> </body> </html> |