Hmm. '|' (better), '\' (backwards) '%' (integral mod) or ':' (ratio) or if you want to get verbose '.|.' which kinda looks like the ole' character you find on most calculator keyboards but turned 90 degress. Best I can think of.
Beware another developer's suggestion; you can store strings containing slashes as the 'values' (and maybe even names) of attributes on your dataset(s). Mark On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 14:56, Dr. X wrote: > Thanks, Mark. I thought the field name (const char *) is packaged > differently than the data tree. I am bumping my head to find an > alternative character to represent division intuitively. Any suggestions? > > Best, > xunlei > On 4/1/2010 5:48 PM, Mark Miller wrote: > > Yes, I am pretty sure the slash character is used by HDF5 library to > > break up dataset names into group paths much like a unix filesystem > > does. > > > > I don't know if there is a way to tell HDF5 to use a different separator > > character for this purpose for a given file. > > > > Mark > > > > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 14:42, Dr. X wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> I am trying > >> hid_t dataset_id = H5Dcreate(group_frame_id, "mass > >> (GeV/(c^2))", std_type_id, space_id, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT, > >> H5P_DEFAULT); > >> And the returned dataset_id = -1. If I changed the string to "mass > >> (GeV_(c^2))", I got a valid dataset_id. > >> Is "/" a special/reserved character in HDF5? Is there such a reserved > >> character list for HDF5? > >> Thanks so much. > >> > >> Best, > >> xunlei > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 -- Mark C. Miller, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ================!!LLNL BUSINESS ONLY!!================ [email protected] urgent: [email protected] T:8-6 (925)-423-5901 M/W/Th:7-12,2-7 (530)-753-851 _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
