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getFormatNameString

char* getFormatNameString (hid_t type)

Translates the HDF5 type type to a HL-HDF string representation of the datatype. The returned string can be one of dataType which can be one of char, schar, uchar, short, ushort, int, uint, long, ulong, llong, ullong, float, double, hsize, hssize, herr, hbool, string or compound. Returns the string representation upon success, otherwise NULL.




2000-08-08