hdf5 vs hf file

HDF5 Library
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Whats the difference between the .h5 file and hdf5 file ? Is there even one ?

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Hello,

Both conventions can be used for HDF5 file. HDF5 library doesn’t require any specific file name extension.

Elena

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No. If you wanna be mean, just call them *.txt :neutral_face: The HDF5 library doesn’t care. G.

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hdfview uses .h5 and .hdf5 for search filters

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Hi Allen,

Since HDF5 files may have different extensions (or no extensions at all), it will be good to extend the search filter to show other extensions, for example, HDF-EOS5, NeXus, netCDF files (both in HDF4 and HDF5 format), others TBD, and also have a search button that finds all HDF5 files.

Thank you!
Elena

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Right. HDFView uses those as the most likely defaults, but the search filter can be changed to search on any extension.

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Can the defaults be changed? G.