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Retrieves the number of elements in a compound or enumeration datatype.

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Shared Function getNMembers ( _
	typeId As H5DataTypeId _
) As Integer
C#
public static int getNMembers (
	H5DataTypeId typeId
)
C++
public:
static int getNMembers (
	H5DataTypeId^ typeId
)

Parameters

typeId (H5DataTypeId)
Identifier of datatype to query.

Return Value

Returns the number of elements if successful.

Remarks

H5Tget_nmembers retrieves the number of fields in a compound datatype or the number of members of an enumeration datatype.

Exceptions

ExceptionCondition
HDF5DotNet.H5TgetNMembersException throws H5TgetNMembersException on failure.