Re: [h5md-user] Mandate Variable-length string datatype

[Peter Colberg]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 04:52:26PM +0200, Pierre de Buyl wrote:
> Has anyone the experience of variable-length string datatype in Fortran?
> 
> This should not prevent us from picking this solution, but I prefer to know 
> the
> implications.

>From the HDF5 Fortran examples [1], I compiled and ran the example
for variable-length string data type [2]; it works just fine.

[1] http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api/api18-fortran.html
[2] 
http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api/hdf5-examples/1_8/FORTRAN/H5T/h5ex_t_vlstring.f90

Peter