Anton, Currently HDF5 does't support attributes for a field in a compound datatype.
You may try to use a committed datatype that corresponds to your C structure and store an attribute(s) for the datatype. Then all datasets that use the same committed datatype will have the same associated units. Unfortunately the application should know the association between attributes and fields in the compound datatype. Elena On Mar 16, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Anton Kulchitsky wrote: > > I would like to specify physical units and long names for every field of > a compound object. I have an array of particles. Each particle is > specified as a C structure with many fields associated with it. I would > like to have an attribute for every field. However, when I create a > compound object, I am not able to specify an attribute for a > field. I am wondering if anyone has similar problem? > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
