HDF5 Tutorial

Contents:

Introductory Topics

1. Introduction
2. HDF5 File Organization
3. The HDF5 API
4. Creating an HDF5 File
5. Creating a Dataset
6. Reading from/Writing to a Dataset
7. Creating an Attribute
8. Creating a Group
9. Creating Groups using Absolute/Relative Names
10. Creating Datasets in Groups

Questions
Answers

Advanced Topics

• Compound Data Types
• Selections using H5Sselect_hyperslab
• Selections using H5Sselect_elements and H5SCopy
• References to Objects
• References to Dataset Regions
• Chunking and Extendible Datasets
• Mounting Files
• Group Iteration

HDF5 Utilities - h5ls/h5dump
Glossary
References
Example Programs from this Tutorial

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Last Modified: October 8, 1999