h5close

x = ["Hello" "World"; "Salut" "Monde"];
save(TMPDIR + "/x.sod", "x"); // SOD files are HDF5 ones 	

// Open the created file
a = h5open(TMPDIR + "/x.sod");

// Dump the file content
h5dump(a);

// Open the dataset named "x"
ds = a.root.x

// Get the attribute 'SCILAB_Class'
attr = ds.SCILAB_Class

// Read its value
attr.data

// Get the data from ds
d = ds.data

// We have finished with the dataset
h5close(ds)

// attr has been open from ds so attr is now not available
// ... so an error
attr

// We have finished so we free all the resources
h5close(a);