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HDF5: API Specification
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The HDF5 library provides several interfaces, each of which provides the tools required to meet specific aspects of the HDF5 data-handling requirements.
Library Functions     The general-purpose H5 functions.
Annotation Interface The H5A API for annotations.
Dataset Interface The H5D API for manipulating scientific datasets.
Error Interface The H5E API for error handling.
File Interface The H5F API for accessing HDF files.
Group Interface The H5G API for creating physical groups of objects on disk.
Identifier Interface The H5I API for working with object identifiers.
Property List Interface The H5P API for manipulating object property lists.
Reference Interface The H5R API for references.
Dataspace Interface The H5S API for defining dataset dataspace.
Datatype Interface The H5T API for defining dataset element information.
Compression Interface The H5Z API for compression.
Tools Interactive tools for the examination of existing HDF5 files.

Experimental interface:
Ragged Arrays  


The H5RA API for ragged arrays.

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