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# HDF5: API Specification
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The HDF5 libraries provide several interfaces, each of which provides the tools required to meet specific aspects of the HDF5 data-handling requirements.

- Library Functions -- The general-purpose H5 functions.
- Annotation Interface -- The H5A API for annotations.
- Dataset Interface -- The H5D API for manipulating scientific datasets.
- Error Interface -- The H5E API for error handling.
- File Interface -- The H5F API for accessing HDF files.
- Group Interface -- The H5G API for creating physical groups of objects on disk.
- Identifier Interface -- The H5I API for working with object identifiers.
- Property List Interface -- The H5P API for manipulating object property lists.
- Reference Interface -- The H5R API for references.
- Dataspace Interface -- The H5S API for defining dataset dataspace.
- Datatype Interface -- The H5T API for defining dataset element information.
- Compression Interface -- The H5Z API for compression.
- Tools -- Interactive tools for the examination of existing HDF5 files.

- Experimental interface:Ragged Arrays -- The H5RA API for ragged arrays.

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