From 7999bc23a572152e7c6778dd7f532ac3aa115761 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tradke <tradke@21a6bef8-4479-4f54-8f8d-0db94a2919ef>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:04:26 +0000
Subject: Need to explicitely set the terminating NUL character when reading in
 a string attribute.

git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/CactusExternal/FlexIO/trunk@52 21a6bef8-4479-4f54-8f8d-0db94a2919ef
---
 src/H5IO.cc | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/H5IO.cc b/src/H5IO.cc
index d5d8795..d52ac2b 100644
--- a/src/H5IO.cc
+++ b/src/H5IO.cc
@@ -629,6 +629,12 @@ int H5IO::readAttribute(int number,void *data){
   hid_t attrib = H5Aopen_idx(dataset,number);
   hid_t atype = H5Aget_type(attrib);
   H5Aread(attrib,atype /*DataType2H5(H5DataType2DataType(atype))*/ ,data);
+  // need to explicitely set the terminating NUL character in string attributes
+  if (H5Tget_class (atype) == H5T_STRING)
+  {
+    size_t len = H5Tget_size (atype);
+    ((char *) data)[len] = 0;
+  }
   H5Tclose(atype);
   H5Aclose(attrib);
   return 1;
-- 
cgit v1.2.3