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Opening a Group

Function Syntax

Open an existing dataset.

hid_t H5Gopen2( hid_t parentId, const char * name, hid_t accessPlistId)

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Value Range

Input/Output

parentId

Location identifier, which may be that of a file, group, dataset, named data type, or attribute

Integer

Input

*name

Name of the group to open

Non-empty string of less than 256 bytes

Input

accessPlistId

Group access property list identifier

Integer

Input

Return Value

  • Success: group identifier
  • Failure: negative value