Re: HDF export
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- Subject: [mg18789] Re: HDF export
- From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:19:16 -0400
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In article <7n12q3$bd3 at smc.vnet.net>, "Roberto Abraham" <abraham at ast.cam.ac.uk> writes: > A central idea behind the HDF format is that the file should be somewhat > "self documenting" in the sense of possibility including an internal > description of the nature of the data, or at least through the use of > sensible keyword names in the data hierarchy to indicate what sort of data > is being stored. However, I can't seem to figure out a way to achieve this > in Mathematica. Is there a way to export arrays and store them with > specified names? Unfortunately, there are no mechanisms in Mathematica's Export[] function for specifying set names. You may want to use a tool like NCSA's hdfed to add the desired set names. http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdftools.html > Also, the on-line help for the Export[] function says that HDF format is > "supported for numerical and textual data" but I can't figure out how to > export a text string. If you are working with an eight-bit character encoding, you could transform the string into an array of characters (e.g. like what is returned by the built-in Characters[] function) and then write out the array as Byte data types. -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.