h5create

Creates a data set.

Syntax

• h5create(filename, datasetname, size, Name1, Value1, ..., NameN, ValueN)

Input argument

• filename - a string: hdf5 filename.

• datasetname - a string: name of the data set.

• size - a row vector specifying the extents of the data set.

• Name1, Value1, ..., NameN, ValueN - Name-Value Pair Arguments.

Description

h5create creates a data set and specify its extent dimensions, datatype and chunk size.

Name-Values pair supported:

Name: Datatype (Nelson® datatypes).

Value: 'double' (default), 'uint64', 'uint32', 'uint16', 'uint8', 'single', 'int64', 'int32', 'int16', or 'int8'.

Name: ChunkSize, chunking layout

Value: []

Name: Deflate, gzip compression level (0-9)

Value: 0 (default)

Name: FillValue, fill value for numeric data sets.

Value: 0 (default)

Name: Fletcher32, enable fletcher32 checksum filter.

Value: logical: false by default

Name: Shuffle, enable shuffle filter.

Value: logical: false by default

Name: TextEncoding, Character encoding.

Value: 'system' or 'UTF-8' (default).

Example

h5create([tempdir(), 'myfile.h5'],'/myDataset1',[10 20]);
h5dump([tempdir(), 'myfile.h5'])

See also

h5write.

History

Version	Description
1.0.0	initial version

Author

Allan CORNET