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H5T_ARRAY_CREATE

Syntax | Return Value | Arguments | Keywords | Example | Version History | See Also

The H5T_ARRAY_CREATE function creates an array datatype object.

Syntax

Result = H5T_ARRAY_CREATE(Datatype_id, Dimensions)

Return Value

The Result gives the identifier of the new datatype. The datatype identifier returned from this function should be released with H5T_CLOSE.

Arguments

Datatype_id

An integer giving the datatype identifier of the datatype of each element in the resulting array.

Dimensions

An integer array giving the size of each array dimension. The number of elements in Dimensions defines the number of dimensions in the resulting array datatype.


Note
The Dimensions argument should be specified in IDL column-major order. Internally, the dimensions will be reversed to match HDF5/C row-major order.

Keywords

None

Example

See the example under H5F_CREATE.

Version History

6.2
Introduced

See Also

H5T_IDL_CREATE, H5T_REFERENCE_CREATE

  IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)