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HDF5 Tutorial:   Learning The Basics
The HDF5 Api

The HDF5 library provides several interfaces, or APIs. These APIs provide routines for creating, accessing, and manipulating HDF5 files and objects.

The library itself is implemented in C. To facilitate the work of FORTRAN 90, C++ and Java programmers, HDF5 function wrappers have been developed in each of these languages. This tutorial discusses the use of the C functions and the FORTRAN wrappers.

All C routines in the HDF5 library begin with a prefix of the form H5*, where * is one or two uppercase letters indicating the type of object on which the function operates. The FORTRAN wrappers come in the form of subroutines that begin with h5 and end with _f. The APIs are listed below:

API
DESCRIPTION
H5
Library Functions: general-purpose H5 functions
H5A
Annotation Interface: attribute access and manipulation routines
H5D
Dataset Interface: dataset access and manipulation routines
H5E
Error Interface: error handling routines
H5F
File Interface: file access routines
H5G
Group Interface: group creation and operation routines
H5I
Identifier Interface: identifier routines
H5L
Link Interface: link routines
H5O
Object Interface: object routines
H5P
Property List Interface: object property list manipulation routines
H5R
Reference Interface: reference routines
H5S
Dataspace Interface: dataspace definition and access routines
H5T
Datatype Interface: datatype creation and manipulation routines
H5Z
Compression Interface: compression routine(s)

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