Retrieve or set the type of padding used by string datatype

H5Tset_strpad(dtype_id, strpad = "NULLPAD")

H5Tget_strpad(dtype_id)

Arguments

dtype_id

ID of HDF5 datatype to query or modify.

strpad

Character vector of length 1 specifying the type of padding to use. Valid options are NULLTERM, NULLPAD and SPACEPAD.