Re: Re: Reading Matlab v7.3 mat file

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/22/2013 06:06 PM, Mathieu Dubois wrote:
> I have looked at the code in src/ls-hdf5.cc. The first problem(can't
> read 'keys') seems to appear at line 526. The value of the type_class_id
> is unknown: it is neither H5T_FLOAT, H5T_INTEGER, H5T_STRING, H5T_COMPOUND.
>
> Printing it reveal that it has value 7 which according to HDF library
> headers (H5Tpublic.h) means: H5T_REFERENCE.
>
> For information I have Ubuntu 12.04 on a 64 bits system. Lib HDF5 is
> version 1.8.4-patch1. I have compiled octave without any option to
> configure.

The code in Octave for handling HDF5 files was written long before 
Matlab's save function was changed to create HDF5 files, and is only 
intended to read HDF5 files that Octave itself creates.

Are you interested in contributing code to support Matlab's new HDF5 
save format?  If so, let's discuss your plans on the maintainers list.

jwe