[scilab-Users] Export_to_hdf5

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 03/04/2012 11:14, Antoine Monmayrant wrote:
> On 02/04/2012 17:43, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> On 02/04/2012 17:41, Adrien Vogt-Schilb wrote:
>>> hi
>>>
>>> can anyone give me a link to the doc of
>>> export_to_hdf5
>>>
>>> i am aware it is beta and everything
>> There is no doc but the behavior is the same as save() expect that 
>> the name of the variable has to be quoted:
>>
>> a=eye <http://help.scilab.org/docs/5.3.3/en_US/eye.html>(2,2);b=ones 
>> <http://help.scilab.org/docs/5.3.3/en_US/ones.html>(a);
>> save('val.dat',a,b);
>> becomes
>> save('val.dat',"a","b");
>>
>> As you said, it is beta and everything ;)
> Hi Sylvestre,
>
> Could you tell us more about hdf5 support in Scilab?
Sure!

> Any chance to see Scilab able to open h5 files generated by other 
> programs, like Matlab does?
Yes, it is on roadmap. It was planned for the 5.4.0 but, unfortunately, 
we won't be able to make it happen for this release.
I hope it will be released for the 5.4.1.
However, we will release the 5.4.0 with HDF5 as the default format for 
load and save with a fully documented format (but the previous format 
will still be available in the 5 family).

About matlab, what is your opinion about their API ?

>
> Cheers,
>
> Antoine
>
> PS: not that I am particularly competent, but I can give a hand to 
> implement this functionality!
I don't think it is a really development. It is more a problem to hide 
the complexity of HDF5 to users and to present correctly the data using 
Scilab default datatypes.

Sylvestre


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