Scientific Data Formats: Hierarchical Data Format - HDF5

H5T_REFERENCE_CREATE

The H5T_REFERENCE_CREATE function creates a reference datatype object.

Syntax

Result = H5T_REFERENCE_CREATE([/REGION])

Return Value

The Result is either an integer (if an object reference is created) or a structure (if a dataspace region reference is created) giving the identifier of the new datatype. The datatype identifier returned from this function should be released with H5T_CLOSE.

Arguments

None

Keywords

REGION

If set a dataspace region reference will be created. The default is to create an object reference.

Example

See the example under H5F_CREATE.

Version History

See Also

H5T_ARRAY_CREATE, H5T_IDL_CREATE, H5T_CLOSE

  IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)