Reading a string from hdf5 in C++

Question

I am reading in datasets from a H5 file in Microsoft Visual C++ 2008. Everything works fine for data of type int and double but I run into problems when I come across string

Answer 1

You need to allocate memory for the full strings, the library won't do it for you. You should replace

char *buffer1[18];

by

char buffer1[18][24];

and

datasetCurveNames.read(&buffer1, strdatatype);

should be

datasetCurveNames.read(buffer1, strdatatype);

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