h5get

x = ["Hello" "World"; "Salut" "Monde"];
save(TMPDIR + "/x.sod", "x"); // SOD files are HDF5 ones

// Open the created file
a = h5open(TMPDIR + "/x.sod");

// Get the root object, this equivalent to a.root or a("/")
r = h5get(a, "/")

// Get the dataset "x"
x = h5get(a, "/x") // or h5get(a.root, "x")
x.data

// Get an inexisting dataset
y = h5get(a.root, "blahblah")

// Get an attribute
attr = h5get(a.root, "SCILAB_scilab_version", %t)
attr.data

// We close all
h5close(a)