Hi Nathan,

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Nathan Smith <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm very new to HDF5 and am trying to find an example of how to compress a
> string written to an HDF5 file.  I've been using the C++ API and writing
> scalar strings to my dataset, but I can't figure out how to use data
> chunking so that I can enable compression.
>

Variable-length data cannot be compressed due to the way we store it in the
HDF5 library.

Dana
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