#include <ColTypeString.hpp>

Inheritance diagram for splash::ColTypeString:

Collaboration diagram for splash::ColTypeString:

Public Member Functions
	ColTypeString (size_t len)

size_t	getSize () const

std::string	toString () const

bool	isVariableLength () const

bool	isNullTerminated () const

Public Member Functions inherited from splash::CollectionType
const H5DataType &	getDataType () const

virtual	~CollectionType ()

Static Public Member Functions
static CollectionType *	genType (hid_t datatype_id)

Detailed Description

Variable and fixed length strings

Do not forget that C-strings are NULL-terminated. As in <cstring>'s strlen() our length in the API does not count the terminator, but c-strings still MUST end with it, else HDF5 write/reads will fail.