h5writeatt

Writes HDF5 attribute.

Syntax

• h5writeatt(filename, location, attname, attvalue)

• h5writeatt(filename, location, attname, attvalue, 'TextEncoding', encoding)

Input argument

• filename - a string: hdf5 filename.

• location - a string: full path identifying a group or variable.

• attname - a string: name of an attribute.

• attvalue - a value: supported types: double, uint64, uint32, uint16, uint8 single, int64, int32, int16, or int8.

• encoding - a string: 'system' or 'UTF-8' ('UTF-8' default).

Description

h5writeatt writes attribute named attname with the value attvalue to the HDF5 file.

Example

h5create([tempdir(), 'myfile.h5'],'/myDataset1',[10 20]);
h5writeatt([tempdir(), 'myfile.h5'],'/','creation_date', '26-Dec-2018 16:55:32')

See also

h5readatt.

History

Version	Description
1.0.0	initial version

Author

Allan CORNET