JuliaIO / MAT.jl

Julia module for reading MATLAB files
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support MATLAB tables #127

Open jebej opened 4 years ago

jebej commented 4 years ago

Currently, tables seem not to be supported, giving an error when read:

ERROR: KeyError: key "table" not found

here https://github.com/JuliaIO/MAT.jl/blob/7d67154ab6acf3ceb448b4fcedf3ac87bebb7f4e/src/MAT_HDF5.jl#L176

jebej commented 4 years ago

Any idea on how this could be supported?

A NamedTuple of arrays could be a good julia equivalent, but I'm not sure how to handle this on the HDF5 side.

timholy commented 4 years ago

I haven't followed carefully, but there are two competing PRs (each with its own advantages) over at HDF5: