ex_put_elem_attr.c File Reference

#include "exodusII.h"

Functions
int	ex_put_elem_attr (int exoid, ex_entity_id elem_blk_id, const void *attrib)

Function Documentation

ex_put_elem_attr()

int ex_put_elem_attr	(	int	exoid,
		ex_entity_id	elem_blk_id,
		const void *	attrib )

Deprecated

Use ex_put_attr()(exoid, EX_ELEM_BLOCK, elem_blk_id, attrib)

The function ex_put_elem_attr() writes the attributes for an element block. Each element in the element block must have the same number of attributes, so there are(num_attr x num_elem_this_blk) attributes for each element block. The function ex_put_elem_block() must be invoked before this call is made.

Because the attributes are floating point values, the application code must declare the array passed to be the appropriate type (float or double) to match the compute word size passed in ex_create() or ex_open().

Returns

In case of an error, ex_put_elem_attr() returns a negative number; a warning will return a positive number. Possible causes of errors include:

• data file not properly opened with call to ex_create() or ex_open()
• data file opened for read only.
• data file not initialized properly with call to ex_put_init().
• ex_put_elem_block() was not called previously for specified element block ID.
• ex_put_elem_block() was called with 0 attributes specified.

Parameters

[in]	exoid	exodus file ID returned from a previous call to ex_create() or ex_open().
[in]	elem_blk_id	The element block ID.
[in]	attrib	Size [num_elem_this_blk*num_attr] The list of attributes for the element block. The num_attr index cycles faster.

Refer to the code example in ex_put_elem_block() for an example of writing the attributes array for an element block.