I know the length of the string a priori. Can you point me to an example of writing out a fixed length string that uses compression?
Thanks! Nathan On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Dana Robinson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org > >
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