Will that work with the HDF5 1.6 library? 
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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net


On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Elena Pourmal wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> You can use HDF5 compound datatype. It is portable across architectures. 
> Please see C example  h5ex_t_cpxcmpd.c at 
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api/api18-c.html under 
> the Datatypes section how to use it. User's Guide also has a section on 
> compound datatypes (under the Datatypes link).
> 
> Elena
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> 
>> I have the following data structure that I would like to store into a single 
>> HDF5 data set:
>> 
>> struct {
>> int v1
>> int v2
>> int v3
>> int v4
>> float v5
>> int v6
>> }
>> 
>> What would be the best way to do this? I know there is a way to store a 
>> "custom" data type but I am coming up empty finding out how to do this. Also 
>> what are the downsides to using a custom data type with respect to 
>> portability across architectures? 
>> 
>> Thanks for any help
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