Hi Ed,
> > You may also wish to refer to the H5 user's guide,
> >
> > http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/UG/
> >
> > and there is a tutorial program at:
> >
> >
> > http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/training/other-ex5/sample-programs/StringOpaque.html
> >
>
> Excellent! Looks to me like we can use the H5T_NATIVE_CHAR type for
> strings and HDF5 will provide everything we need.
>
> One question: you guys can handle n-dimensional arrays of strings -
> for example a 3 dimensional array of strings? And use the space
> manipulation functions to define the dimensions, all in the usual HDF5
> way?
Yep. You can have any combination of dataspace and datatype that you'd
like. (a 17 dimensional space of variable-length sequences of arrays of
strings, etc... :-)
Quincey
