Paul,

I think the function |H5Lexists |does the job :
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/RM_H5L.html#Link-Exists

I use it in one of my projects :
http://code.google.com/p/amelet-hdf/source/browse/amelethdf-fortran/trunk/src/amelethdf/hdfpath.f90#36

Regards,

Cyril.


Le 17/02/2011 10:58, Paul Anton Letnes a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> I am using the fortran90 interface to hdf5 1.8 patch 1.
>
> I am unable to find a function that lets me know whether a group exists 
> already. It is clearly not allowed to create an already existing group, so I 
> need to check this with an if (...) statement. Does such a function exist?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul.
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