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Re: Strings

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Hi Ed,
H5Dvlen_reclaim is used to release memory allocated by library while reading variable-length data. You may use free function to deallocate array of char pointers, i.e. 
for (i=0; i<N; i++)  free read_txt[i];

or you may use H5Dvlen_reclaim (type_id, space_id, H5P_DEFAULT, read_txt)
where type_id corresponds to the variable string datatypes and space_id corresponds to 1-DIM array of size N. 

The name of the function is misleading. It should be probably H5Tvlen_reclaim
In the example I sent you yesterday, I used free function, since the attribute was just one string (not an array of strings and not a compound datatype that had string member). 

Elena
At 12:24 PM 9/15/2005, Ed Hartnett wrote:

Elena Pourmal <epourmal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I believe you just allocate array of char pointers, then library does
> the rest. You only have to use
> H5Dvlen_reclaim function after you are done. See tvlstr.c test in the
> test directory.
>
> Elena
>

Does that mean that instead of a pointer to char * I should be
allocated for hvl_t types?

Ed

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