Re: Reading Matlab v7.3 mat file

[Mathieu Dubois]

Le 23/02/2013 05:22, John W. Eaton a écrit :
> 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.
I have think about it this week-end but I clearly don't have the time 
now. However that could be a cool project so I will re-consider it in 1 
month or so.

In the meantime I can take some time to read: is there any document 
explaining how to add IO format to octave?

Mathieu

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