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

[Nicholas Jankowski]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #42530 (group octave):

1) in octave 9.1.0, attempting to load with -v7.3 will produce an error that
the file format is not yet implemented.  it was only a couple months ago but
unsure how i was able to test that it works with the -v7.3 option. perhaps i
had commented out the error to allow it to run. 

2) appears my comment #4 testing only tested numeric data. that seems to load
fine from a v7.3 file either without specifying format or with the -hdf5
option.  a few quick tests now show that logical also loads, but come in as
uint8.  character arrays (using single quotes in matlab) load as uint16
arrays.  it seems cells, string types (double quotes), structs all result in
'unknown datatype' warnings and data not loading.

will rework the docstring for load indicating that the 7.3 option is disabled,
and correcting the hdf5 status.


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