On Sep 29, 2011, at 9:15 AM, guillaume wrote:
> Thank you for your reply.
> This is what H5TB does internally. This is using field name to get data, but
> what if I want to extract 2 fields in one ? For instance, if I have
> compound type {
> "a_name" INT8
> "b_name" INT8
> "c_name" INT16
> }
>
> and I want to read "a_name" and "b_name" in a INT16 ?
> Is there any lower API that can achieve that ?
Yes, that's work too. The HDF5 library matches fields by name when
doing I/O, so just define your compound datatype in memory with 'a_name' and
'b_name' fields that are of INT16 type and the library will extract just those
two fields and also type convert from INT8 to INT16.
Quincey
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