matlab.io.hdfeos.gd.defDim
Namespace: matlab.io.hdfeos.gd
Define new dimension within grid
Syntax
defDim(gridID,dimname,dimlen)
Description
defDim(gridID,dimname,dimlen)
defines a
new dimension named dimname
with length dimlen
in
the grid structure identified by gridID
.
To specify an unlimited dimension, you can use either 0 or 'unlimited'
for dimlen
.
This function corresponds to the GDdefdim
function
in the HDF-EOS library C API.
Examples
Define a dimension 'Band'
with length of
15 and an unlimited dimension 'Time'
.
import matlab.io.hdfeos.* gfid = gd.open('myfile.hdf','create'); gridID = gd.create(gfid,'PolarGrid',100,100,[],[]); gd.defDim(gridID,'Band',15); gd.defDim(gridID,'Time',0); gd.detach(gridID); gd.close(gfid);