[netcdfgroup] Problem with nc_inq_grps and ncdump reading HDF5 file

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] Problem with nc_inq_grps and ncdump reading HDF5 file
• From: Andrew Dowsey <andrew.dowsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:14:20 +0000

Hi,

I’m trying to create HDF5 files that can be read by NetCDF4 and I’ve run into a 
problem in that nc_inq_grps seems to report some bad ids. ncdump bails with 
this error too. h5dump works fine. The problem is deterministic but I haven’t 
been able to figure out what causes it because slightly different HDF5 files 
work fine. I have created a test file that has this problem, which contains 
nothing but groups. It can be downloaded from 
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/andrew.dowsey/test.h5

I am creating a new format for a type of instrument data we use, and for 
flexibility I would like it to be writeable/readable both by HDF5 and netCDF4 
libraries.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,
Andy


Andrew Dowsey PhD
Lecturer and CADET Bioinformatics Research Lead
Institute of Human Development, The University of Manchester

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