hdf2sdds problem

[libov]

Michael,

I'm trying to convert HDF5 file to SDDS with the following command:

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hdf2sdds RAW-injected-electrons-001510.h5 RAW-injected-electrons-001510.sdds

It terminates with the error message:

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unable to convert HDF file of 1 dimensions

What am I doing wrong? Or is it not possible to convert such a file? Here is the link to HDF file: http://www-zeus.desy.de/~libov/download ... -001510.h5

Thanks in advance!

Slava

[michael_borland]

I've asked Bob Soliday to have a look at this.

--Michael

[soliday]

Unfortunately, hdf2sdds is not a general purpose conversion program like sdds2hdf is. It was written for a very specific type of HDF file. There are a million ways HDF files can be formatted and not all directly translate into something that fits SDDS. But the file you are trying to convert does. Here are commands you can put into a script to convert this file into SDDS:

h5ls -d -w1 RAW-injected-electrons-001510.h5/ene > tmp.ene
h5ls -d -w1 RAW-injected-electrons-001510.h5/p1 > tmp.p1
h5ls -d -w1 RAW-injected-electrons-001510.h5/p2 > tmp.p2
h5ls -d -w1 RAW-injected-electrons-001510.h5/p3 > tmp.p3
h5ls -d -w1 RAW-injected-electrons-001510.h5/q > tmp.q
h5ls -d -w1 RAW-injected-electrons-001510.h5/x1 > tmp.x1
h5ls -d -w1 RAW-injected-electrons-001510.h5/x2 > tmp.x2
h5ls -d -w1 RAW-injected-electrons-001510.h5/x3 > tmp.x3

plaindata2sdds tmp.ene tmp.ene.sdds -skiplines=3 -skipcolumn=string -noRowCount -column=env,double
plaindata2sdds tmp.p1 tmp.p1.sdds -skiplines=3 -skipcolumn=string -noRowCount -column=p1,double
plaindata2sdds tmp.p2 tmp.p2.sdds -skiplines=3 -skipcolumn=string -noRowCount -column=p2,double
plaindata2sdds tmp.p3 tmp.p3.sdds -skiplines=3 -skipcolumn=string -noRowCount -column=p3,double
plaindata2sdds tmp.q tmp.q.sdds -skiplines=3 -skipcolumn=string -noRowCount -column=q,double
plaindata2sdds tmp.x1 tmp.x1.sdds -skiplines=3 -skipcolumn=string -noRowCount -column=x1,double
plaindata2sdds tmp.x2 tmp.x2.sdds -skiplines=3 -skipcolumn=string -noRowCount -column=x2,double
plaindata2sdds tmp.x3 tmp.x3.sdds -skiplines=3 -skipcolumn=string -noRowCount -column=x3,double

rm -f tmp.ene tmp.p1 tmp.p2 tmp.p3 tmp.q tmp.x1 tmp.x2 tmp.x3

sddsxref tmp.ene.sdds tmp.p1.sdds tmp.p2.sdds tmp.p3.sdds tmp.q.sdds tmp.x1.sdds tmp.x2.sdds tmp.x3.sdds RAW-injected-electrons-001510.sdds

rm -f tmp.ene.sdds tmp.p1.sdds tmp.p2.sdds tmp.p3.sdds tmp.q.sdds tmp.x1.sdds tmp.x2.sdds tmp.x3.sdds