Hi Johannes,
On May 11, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Stamminger, Johannes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for array types I do not find the way to determine the type the array
> items are of. E.g. for a H5T_NATIVE_CHAR[20] I search for the method to
> get informed of the elements being of type H5T_NATIVE_CHAR.
>
> H5Tget_class returns 10 = array, H5Tget_size returns the overall size of
> the array (here: 20). I suspected H5Tget_super to provide this info -
> but this returns an id different from H5T_NATIVE_CHAR's id.
H5Tget_super() is the correct function to use. The ID it returns must
be closed, but should compare equal to H5T_NATIVE_CHAR with H5Tequal().
Quincey
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