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HCREATE

Creates an HDS data object of specified name, type and shape. Whether the object is primitive or a structure is determined by the type given (see Valid_Types subtopic).

By default the object created will be a scalar (dimension 0). If you want to create an object of different shape then either supply the dimensions on the command line or force prompting with the prompt keyword. Note that the size of each dimension can subsequently be changed with HRESHAPE, but the number of dimensions cannot.

Primitives are not given values and this action must be performed subsequently by HMODIFY, HFILL or HCOPY.


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