[Gdal-dev] Datatype of bands

[Frank Warmerdam]

Matt Hanson wrote:
> Frank, Thanks for the answers.  I'm going to assume that all bands are of
> the same datatype.
> 
> A related question - is there a way I can get the datatype of a band as a
> typename, rather then as a GDAL enum or a string.   I want to be able to
> query a dataset and get the datatype so I can create a template of a
> specific type.

Matt,

No, I'm sorry, there is no support for this currently.

Best regards,
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