Read a vlen-utf8 encoded string array from zarr v2 store

AnnData zarr stores encode string arrays using the vlen-utf8 filter. Each string in the chunk is stored as a 4-byte little-endian int32 length prefix followed by that many bytes of UTF-8 text.

Usage

.zarr_read_strings(store_path, rel_path)

Arguments

store_path

Path to zarr store

rel_path

Relative path to string array within store

Value

Character vector