Routines (alphabetical) > Routines: H > HDF5 Routines > H5S_CREATE_SCALAR

# H5S_CREATE_SCALAR

The H5S_CREATE_SCALAR function creates a scalar dataspace.

Note: Scalar dataspaces have no dimensionality thus H5S_GET_SIMPLE_EXTENT_DIMS and H5S_GET_SIMPLE_EXTENT_NDIMS will both return 0.

## Syntax

Result = H5S_CREATE_SCALAR()

## Return Value

The Result gives the dataspace identifier. This identifier should be released with the H5S_CLOSE procedure.

## Arguments

None

## Keywords

None

## Version History

6.2 | Introduced