[Gdal-dev] Determining Opened File Format?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ayman Kamal wrote:
> I am using GDAL to open GeoTiff files, I want a
> function to tell me if the file being opened is
> GeoTiff or not, so that I refuse to open it if it is
> not GeoTiff.
> 
> How can I do this?

Ayman,

Call GDALGetDatasetDriver() to get back a GDALDriverH for the dataset, and
they get the short name using GDALGetDriverShortName().  Check if this is
"GTiff".

Good idea to avoid all those other dirty formats. Make them stick with GeoTIFF.

Later,
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