[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #8607] New module h5read to read/write HDF5 files

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #4, patch #8607 (project octave):

@3: correct me if I am wrong, but the code there implements

load('-hdf5', ...)

which in fact  would profit of certain improvements:

 * It can only read a whole file or whole first level groups, like '/grid',
but not '/data/foo/bar' .
 * It crashes if it encounters string datasets, instead of just ignoring them

But I think that this is another story and would require a separate patch.
And, one cannot append to existing data or read/write attributes with those
octave functions.

This patch here attempts to imitate
http://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/h5write.html and the like.

Or what do you mean with "improvements that this patch requires to read the
HDF5 files"?

I think some of the small helper functions could maybe be reused, like
hdf5_types_compatible(), that might indeed be good idea.

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