[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #42530] Octave does NOT load any HDF5 file, just those created by Octave itself (and Matlab?)

[Nicholas Jankowski]

Update of bug#42530 (group octave):

                  Status:                    None => Need Info              

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Follow-up Comment #3:

looking at the current status of this request, the help for load does say:


     ‘-hdf5’
          Force Octave to assume the file is in HDF5 format.  (HDF5 is a
          free, portable binary format developed by the National Center
          for Supercomputing Applications at the University of
          Illinois.)  Note that Octave can only read HDF5 files that
          were created by itself with ‘save’.  This format is only
          available if Octave was built with a link to the HDF5
          libraries.

...

     ‘-v7.3’
     ‘-V7.3’
     ‘-7.3’
          Octave does *not* yet implement MATLAB's v7.3 binary data
          format.


so it seems the first part of the request (that it should mention -hdf5 only
works with things octave saved that way) has been satisfied. 

Unclear how it should be updated to note that matlab's sv7.3 is hdf5 based and
octave can read it.  the note about 7.3 binary, that makes it sound like this
format option is unusable. that seems to not be correct.  can someone
confirm?




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