h5isRef

Arguments

obj

a H5Object

b

a boolean

Description

Check if an HDF5 object is a reference object.

Examples

// Create a SOD file which an HDF5 one
x = list(1, "hello");
save(TMPDIR + "/x.sod", "x");

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

// Test
h5isRef(a)

// Test against the references in the dataset named 'x'
y = a.root.x.data;
h5isRef(y)

// Get the reference values
y(1).data, y(2).data

// We close all
h5close(a)

See also

• h5isFile — Check if the HDF5 object is a file

• h5isGroup — Check if the HDF5 object is a group

• h5isSet — Check if the HDF5 object is a dataset

• h5isAttr — Check if the HDF5 object is an attribute

• h5isSpace — Check if the HDF5 object is a dataspace

• h5isType — Check if the HDF5 object is a type

• h5isCompound — Check if the HDF5 object is an array

• h5isArray — Check if the HDF5 object is an array

• h5isVlen — Check if the HDF5 object is a variable length array

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