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<p>In HDF5, strings can either be variable length or fixed length
strings. In R, they are always variable length. Therefore, strings from
R to HDF5 that are written into fixed-length fields will be truncated.
Conversely, strings from HDF5 that are fixed length to R will only be
returned up the the NULL character that ends strings in C.</p>
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