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Re: Reading HDF5 Variable [message #42597 is a reply to message #42521]

Mon, 14 February 2005 14:03

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Michael Wallace wrote:
>> Hey - me too! Except rather than write a conversion program each time,
>> I just pipe the hdfdump[*] utility output into the ncgen utility to
>> convert files I use. E.g.
>>
>> hdfdump <hdfile> | ncgen -b <ncfile>
>>
>> and I end up with a nice simple, useful netCDF file. :o)
>>
>
> Cool. I tried doing this a while back but I was never successful. Which
> versions of hdfdump and ncgen are you using? If I can simply do that
> from the command line now, that'd be so much easier.

Oopsy - I should've read the subject line closer. I've only done it for HDF4 files
(v4.1r3). Sorry. When I found out HDF5 was incompatible with HDF4 (is that still true?) I
avoided HDF5 like the plague and plead total ignorance when someone wants to give me a
HDF5 file. ;o)

However, if the hdfdump for HDF5 libraries outputs in CDL, ncgen should understand it,
right? I just had a quick look at the HDF5 website and h5dump doesn't mention CDL, just
XML. Bummer. Maybe h5toh4 -> h4dump -> ncgen ??

paulv

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		Reading HDF5 Variable By: David Fanning on Mon, 14 February 2005 07:14
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: David Fanning on Mon, 14 February 2005 18:10
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: James Kuyper on Mon, 14 February 2005 16:43
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: Michael Wallace on Mon, 14 February 2005 14:12
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 14 February 2005 14:03

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