Request for character detection in H5Easy

[Russelleq]

Dear Steven,
Would it be possible to add a feature to read character arrays as well?

Thank you very much,
Russell

[stevenwalton]

Hi @Russelleq, happy to add it. I got a lot on my plate right now but I should be able to get to it next week.

[Russelleq]

Thanks so much. I just had one question. I have integer data type H5T_STD_U64LE. Can you please help me read this? I tried all means to modify the H5Easy.h file. For example, I just added the line:
dataset.read(data,PredType::STD_U64LE);
instead of all the variations. This does not seem to help. Can you suggest some modification?

Thanks much,
Russell

[stevenwalton]

Sorry, it has been a few years since I looked at the code. But my understanding is that this would conflict with L495. Are you getting an error around there? If so I'd just try changing the next line to the unsigned little endian.

If that doesn't work, do you have an error you can dump here for me?

[Russelleq]

Hi Steven,
If I try accessing a U64_LE integer then I get the error:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

If I try correcting the H5Easy.h file as per your recommendation on line 496, I still get the same error. The double and float have no problems.

Thanks,
Russell