Hello, I am using the high-level table API to read in a table from an HDF5 data file. I am using the h5tbget_field_info_f routine, which I need to supply with an empty array for the field names. Is there a robust way to find out what length to make the individual field names in the array? I found that in the case I am looking at, I need to define
character(len=255),allocatable :: field_names(:) If I do not use a value of 255, then the field_names have whitespace in the wrong places, and if the length is too short I even get malloc errors. Therefore, it seems that the length has to match the length used to store the data in the file. Therefore, is there a way to find out in advance the length needed for the field names before calling h5tbget_field_info_f? Just to be clear, I am using h5tbget_table_info_f to get nfields which I can use to allocate field_names, but I am trying to find out the value for the length of each individual element in field_names(:) Thanks in advance for any help, Thomas _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
