[scilab-Users] Export_to_hdf5

[Antoine Monmayrant]

On 03/04/2012 14:13, Antoine Monmayrant wrote:
> On 03/04/2012 11:24, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> 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 ?
> Well, I used it rarely, relying on the "import-wizard-for-dummy".
> But I like the "api" that is used in both MEEP and MPB and that rely 
> on h5utils: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/H5utils
> They also provide "h5read.oct" to import their h5 in Octave. It could 
> be interesting to use the same kind of syntax for Scilab...
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>
>

I just saw that octave now supports hdf5 natively.
It seems to be able to load the files we work with.
Could you base your approach for hdf5 support on octave implementation?

Antoine