Read in FixedAscii string without knowing N at compile time

[ypauling]

Hi,
I know that the main developer has stopped working on the project for a while but would like to get some feedback from the user community. I am having trouble figuring out a way to read in dataset of fixed length strings. With the type descriptor I can extract the "fixed length", but since the N in FixedAscii type is generic, I can't seem to find a way to use that information to read in the data. My initial idea is to find way to read in raw bytes and then convert them to valid strings. But that does not seem to work since as_byte_reader seems to require that the underlying H5Type is convertible to u8. I don't know if someone could help me on this.

[peterfpeterson]

https://github.com/metno/hdf5-rust/ is the most active fork of this. Maybe ask there. I've been trying to figure it out myself and I'm sure a 10-line example would help a ton of people.