Re: [h5md-user] Strings again / parallel issue

[Peter Colberg]

Hi Pierre,

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 02:03:57PM +0100, Pierre de Buyl wrote:
> On the Fortran examples page on the HDF5 website [1] there is simply no
> variable-length string attribute code :-/

There is an example…

Be sure to hold a safety blanket before opening this:

http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api/hdf5-examples/1_8/FORTRAN/H5T/h5ex_t_vlenatt_F03.f90

I updated the H5MD specification to mandate fixed-length string datatypes.

Peter