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+/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
+ * Copyright by The HDF Group.                                               *
+ * Copyright by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.         *
+ * All rights reserved.                                                      *
+ *                                                                           *
+ * This file is part of HDF5.  The full HDF5 copyright notice, including     *
+ * terms governing use, modification, and redistribution, is contained in    *
+ * the files COPYING and Copyright.html.  COPYING can be found at the root   *
+ * of the source code distribution tree; Copyright.html can be found at the  *
+ * root level of an installed copy of the electronic HDF5 document set and   *
+ * is linked from the top-level documents page.  It can also be found at     *
+ * http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Copyright.html.  If you do not have          *
+ * access to either file, you may request a copy from help@hdfgroup.org.     *
+ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+/*
+ This program reads binary output from h5dump (-b option).
+ To use change the following 3 symbols accordingly.
+ For example, to read 2 elements of a float type , define
+
+  #define NELMTS     2
+  #define TYPE       float
+  #define FORMAT     "%f "
+
+*/
+
+#define NELMTS     6
+#define TYPE       int
+#define FORMAT     "%d "
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function: usage
+ *
+ * Purpose: Prints a usage message on stderr and then returns.
+ *
+ * Return: void
+ *
+ * Programmer:  Pedro Vicente Nunes
+ *
+ * Modifications:
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+static void
+usage (void)
+{
+    fprintf(stderr, "usage: binread FILE_NAME\n");
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function: main
+ *
+ * Purpose: main program.
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+int
+main (int argc, const char *argv[])
+{
+    FILE  *stream;
+    size_t numread;
+    TYPE   buf[NELMTS];
+    size_t i, nelmts = NELMTS;
+    char  *fname=NULL;
+
+    if (argc != 2) {
+        usage();
+        exit(1);
+    }
+
+    fname = strdup(argv[1]);
+
+    if((stream = fopen(fname, "rb")) != NULL) {
+        numread = fread(buf, sizeof( TYPE ), nelmts, stream);
+        printf("Number of items read = %llu\n", (unsigned long long)numread);
+
+        for (i = 0; i < nelmts; i++) {
+            printf(FORMAT,buf[i]);
+        }
+        printf("\n");
+
+        fclose(stream);
+    }
+    else
+        printf("File %s could not be opened\n", fname);
+
+    free(fname);
+
+    return 0;
+}
+