On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:22:23PM +0200, Guillaume Jacquenot wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to read the content of an unknown H5T_COMPOUND variable from a
> C program.
> 
> I would like to retrieve:
> - the number of elements
> - the type of each elements
> - the name of each element

I don't do this often so I don't have a good example for you but
you'll need these routines:

        Compound Datatype Properties
        H5Tget_nmembers
        H5Tget_member_class
        H5Tget_member_name
        H5Tget_member_index
        H5Tget_member_offset
        H5Tget_member_type

(http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/RM_H5T.html)
-- 
Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA

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