HDF5 Examples

HDF5 1.8 Examples By API:

HDF5 1.6 Examples by API:

*	Note that the HDF5 1.8 examples for Fortran can be used with HDF5 1.6 without any changes.
**	For more information, see: Summary of HDF5 Capabilities in MATLAB.

Other Examples:

C# User Contributed Examples (.NET)
Currently, this directory contains a C# example demonstrating how to retrieve variable-length strings from an HDF5 file.

C++ Examples
These C++ examples are provided with the HDF5 source code.

HDF5 Tutorial Examples
Examples that come with the HDF5 Tutorial.

h5py Example Code
Example program donated by a user that uses h5py (Python APIs).

IDL, MATLAB, and NCL Examples for HDF-EOS
Examples of how to access and visualize NASA HDF-EOS files using IDL, MATLAB, and NCL.

Introduction to HDF5
The Introduction to HDF5 includes examples programs, although they may not have been tested in a while.

Miscellaneous Examples
These examples resulted from working with users, and are not fully tested. Most of them are in C, with a few in Fortran and Java.

Using Special Values
These examples show how to create special values in an HDF5 application.

How To Compile:

Compiling Your Applications
HDF5 provides the h5cc (C), h5c++ (C++), and h5fc (F90) scripts for compiling applications.

Last Modified: July 31, 2009