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matlab.io.hdf4.sd.fileInfo

Package: matlab.io.hdf4.sd

Number of data sets and global attributes in file

Syntax

[ndatasets,ngatts] = fileInfo(sdID)

Description

[ndatasets,ngatts] = fileInfo(sdID) returns the number of data sets ndatasets and the number of global attributes ngatts in the file identified by sdID.

ndatasets includes the number of coordinate variable data sets.

This function corresponds to the SDfileinfo function in the HDF library C API.

Examples

import matlab.io.hdf4.*
sdID = sd.start('sd.hdf');
[ndatasets,ngatts] = sd.fileInfo(sdID);
sd.close(sdID);

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