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    <refnamediv>
        <refname>h5ls</refname>
        <refpurpose>List the content of an HDF5 object (group or dataset)</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv>
        <title>Syntax</title>
        <synopsis>
            content = h5ls(obj [, name [, filter]])
            content = h5ls(filename, name [, filter])
        </synopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsection>
        <title>Arguments</title>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>obj</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a H5Object</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>name</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a string giving the path to the object to list</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>filename</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a string giving the filename</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>filter</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a string giving the type to filter</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>content</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a matrix of strings with 2 columns</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para>List the content of a group or a dataset. The first column gives the names and the second one the type of the listed element.</para>
        <para>The filter can take one of the values 'group' (or 'g'), 'dataset' (or 'd'), 'type' (or 't') and 'attribute' (or 'a'). For example, if 'g' is given, only the groups will be returned.</para>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Examples</title>
        <programlisting role="example"><![CDATA[
x = int8(matrix(1:80, 10, 8));
save(TMPDIR + "/x.sod", "x"); // SOD files are HDF5 ones

// Open the created file
a = h5open(TMPDIR + "/x.sod");

// We list the content of a
h5ls(a)

// only the dataset
h5ls(a, ".", "d")

// only the attributes
h5ls(a, ".", "a");

// We can see a dataset named x, list it
h5ls(a.root.x) // a.root.x is equivalent to a("/x")

// We have finished so we free all the resources
h5close(a);
    ]]></programlisting>
    </refsection>
    <refsection role="see also">
        <title>See also</title>
        <simplelist type="inline">
            <member>
                <link linkend="h5open">h5open</link>
            </member>
        </simplelist>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>History</title>
        <revhistory>
            <revision>
                <revnumber>5.5.0</revnumber>
                <revremark>HDF5 module introduced.</revremark>
            </revision>
        </revhistory>
    </refsection>
</refentry>
