# HDF5 User's Guide

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# A User's Guide for HDF5

The following documents form a loosely organized user's guide to the HDF5 library.

HDF5 Files |  | A guide to the H5F interface.
Datasets |  | A guide to the H5D interface.
Data Types |  | A guide to the H5T interface.
Dataspaces |  | A guide to the H5S interface.
Groups |  | A guide to the H5G interface.
References and Identifiers |  | A guide to the H5R and H5I interfaces.
Attributes |  | A guide to the H5A interface.
Property Lists |  | A guide to the H5P interface.
Error Handling |  | A guide to the H5E interface.
Filters |  | A guide to the H5Z interface.
Caching |  | A guide for meta and raw data caching.
Dataset Chunking |  | A guide to the issues and pitfalls of dataset chunking.
Debugging |  | A guide to debugging HDF5 API calls.
Environment Variables and Configuration Parameters |  | A list of HDF5 environment variables and configuration parameters.
DDL for HDF5 |  | A DDL in BNF for HDF5.

Ragged Arrays

A guide to the H5RA interface. (Experimental)

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