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Re: Strings

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I believe you just allocate array of char pointers, then library does the rest. You only have to use H5Dvlen_reclaim function after you are done. See tvlstr.c test in the test directory. 

Elena


At 08:36 PM 9/8/2005, Ed Hartnett wrote:

Elena Pourmal <epourmal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Ed,
>
> You should be able to use strlen function on each element of your
> array to get a length of  each string.
>
> Elena
>

But I can't do that until I read it.

How do I know how much memory to allocate to read it?

Thanks!

Ed
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