John, Do you think this High-Level function H5LTdtype_to_text would help? See http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/HL/RM_H5LT.html#H5LTdtype_to_text ?
Elena ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elena Pourmal The HDF Group http://hdfgroup.org 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820 217.531.6112 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Jul 26, 2012, at 1:19 PM, John K wrote: > It occurs to me that the h5dump program does a lot of stuff that would be > really useful to have in library code. As an example, I was running into a > problem today that I suspected was due to a type definition that was in use > incorrectly. I was ultimately able to confirm my suspicion by reading code, > but during that search I thought it'd be really handy to have a function that > I could use to dump out the structure of the data type to some output stream > or other. > > h5dump already does what I was interested in, but it's not library code and > would be difficult to integrate into my program to look at the definition of > a type that's only defined in memory. > > Anyway, I thought it'd be super useful to have some of this code in h5dump > moved into a high level library for debugging (or other) purposes. > > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
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