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Author: scivision

+stdlib/canonical.m

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 %% CANONICAL Canonicalize path
 % c = canonical(p);
 % If exists, canonical absolute path is returned.
-% if path does not exist, normalized relative path is returned.
+% if any component of path does not exist, normalized relative path is returned.
 % UNC paths are not canonicalized.
 %
 % This also resolves Windows short paths to long paths.
@@ -34,11 +34,13 @@
 
 if stdlib.exists(c, use_java)
   if stdlib.isoctave()
+    % empty if any component of path does not exist
     c = canonicalize_file_name(c);
   elseif use_java
+    % incorrect result if any component of path does not exist
     c = javaFileObject(c).getCanonicalPath();
   else
-    % errors if any component of path does not exist. Errors on leading ~
+    % errors if any component of path does not exist.
     c = builtin('_canonicalizepath', c);
   end
 elseif stdlib.len(c)

+stdlib/exists.m

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 %% EXISTS does path exist
 %
-% NOTE: in general on Windows existS("not-exist/..") is true, but on
+% NOTE: in general on Windows exists("./not-exist/..") is true, but on
 % Unix it is false.
 % In C/C++ access() or stat() the same behavior is observed Windows vs Unix.
 %

+stdlib/h5get_version.m

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+%% H5GET_VERSION get version of HDF5 library as a string
+
+function v = h5get_version()
+
+[major, minor, rel] = H5.get_libversion();
+
+v = sprintf("%d.%d.%d", major, minor, rel);
+
+end