[svn-r3196]

Purpose:
    Adding Tutorial to development branch (R 1.4)
Platforms tested:
    IE 5

doc/html/Tutor/examples/h5_crtdat.c

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ *   Creating and closing a dataset.
+ */
+
+#include <hdf5.h>
+#define FILE "dset.h5"
+
+main() {
+
+   hid_t       file_id, dataset_id, dataspace_id;  /* identifiers */
+   hsize_t     dims[2];
+   herr_t      status;
+
+   /* Create a new file using default properties. */
+   file_id = H5Fcreate(FILE, H5F_ACC_TRUNC, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT);
+
+   /* Create the data space for the dataset. */
+   dims[0] = 4; 
+   dims[1] = 6; 
+   dataspace_id = H5Screate_simple(2, dims, NULL);
+
+   /* Create the dataset. */
+   dataset_id = H5Dcreate(file_id, "/dset", H5T_STD_I32BE, dataspace_id, H5P_DEFAULT);
+
+   /* End access to the dataset and release resources used by it. */
+   status = H5Dclose(dataset_id);
+
+   /* Terminate access to the data space. */ 
+   status = H5Sclose(dataspace_id);
+
+   /* Close the file. */
+   status = H5Fclose(file_id);
+}
+