Hi Natalie,
Below is an extract from a class HDF5DataSet I've written some time ago for the casacore package. It writes a hyperslab.
I hope you more or less understand the code. Block is similar to the std::vector.
I can point you to the code if you would like to see more or use it.
Why don't you use something like Blitz++ or boost::multi_array (or casacore::Array) instead of struggling with C pointers? All do full array arithmetic, etc.
Cheers,
Ger
void HDF5DataSet::put (const Slicer& section, const void* buf)
{
// Define the data set selection.
Block<hsize_t> offset = fromShape(section.start());
Block<hsize_t> count = fromShape(section.length());
Block<hsize_t> stride = fromShape(section.stride());
if (H5Sselect_hyperslab (itsDSid, H5S_SELECT_SET, offset.storage(),
stride.storage(), count.storage(), NULL) < 0) {
throw HDF5Error("invalid data set array selection");
}
// Define a data space for the memory buffer.
HDF5HidDataSpace memspace (H5Screate_simple (count.size(),
count.storage(), NULL));
// Define memory selection.
offset = 0;
if (H5Sselect_hyperslab (memspace, H5S_SELECT_SET, offset.storage(),
NULL, count.storage(), NULL) < 0) {
throw HDF5Error("setting slab of memory buffer");
}
// Read the data.
if (H5Dwrite (getHid(), itsDataType.getHidMem(), memspace, itsDSid,
H5P_DEFAULT, buf) < 0) {
throw HDF5Error("writing slab into data set array");
}
}
Natalie Happenhofer <nataliehapp@hotmail.com> 10/16/08 1:50 PM >>>
Hi!
I need to write a 2-dimensional .h5 file, the data in it should look like the following array (concerning shape)
1 2 3 2 4
1 2 5 2 4
1 1 4 2 4
My problem is that I need to allocate the space for my data array dynamically, i.e. it looks like this in C++:
float** Data = new float* [xdims]
for(int i=1; i<xdims; i++) Data[i] = new float [ydims];
as my data array is not necessarily contiguous in memory, I need a way to write it to my .h5 file with hyperslabs, as someone hinted earlier - I would write xdims rows with ydims values, but how do I write a hyperslab, which functions do I have to use? In the HDF5 Users Guide I have just found how to read hyperslabs from already existing data.
thx,
NH
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