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This tutorial covers the basic features in HDF5. The topics build on each other and are intended to be completed in order. Some sections use files created in earlier sections. The examples used can also be found on the HDF5 Introductory Examples page.
- HDF5 File Organization
- The HDF5 API
- Creating an HDF5 File
- Creating a Dataset
- Reading From and Writing To a Dataset
- Creating an Attribute
- Creating a Group
- Creating Groups Using Absolute and Relative Names
- Create Datasets in Groups
- Reading From or Writing to a Subset of a Dataset
- Datatypes
- Property Lists
- Dataset Storage Layout: Contiguous, Chunked, Compact
- Extendible Datasets
- Compressed Datasets
- Discovering the Contents of an HDF5 File
- Questions / Answers
- The HDF5 API
- - Last modified: 05 July 2016