Research organsiations use CDF files to store and transfer scientific data.

Other Uses: CDF files can also refer to Common Data Format, a standard file format to store multidimensional information.

CDF files can be read using Wolfram CDF player in Windows, Linux, MacOSand iOS environments. CDF files can store text, typeset expressions, graphics and other interface related elements and find use in business presentations, journal articles and e-learning content. The data is stored in these files in the ASCII format using the Wolfram Language expression syntax. CDF files are used for creating dynamic interactive content using custom made Wolfram media player.

Main Use: CDF files belong to the category of electronic document formats.

CDF files are a type of page layout files developed by Wolfram Research. CDF stands for Computable Document Format. If you want to understand how it works, how to use the code or what works, you may have to read tests.CDF files mostly belong to CDF Player by Wolfram.

read ISO 8859-1(Latin-1) encoded files (converts to UTF-8 on the fly).

handles both row and column major files.

loads cdf files from memory (std::vector or char*).

There are also Java and Python implementations which are not usable in C++.

The main one is NASA's C implementation available here but it lacks multi-threads support, has an old C interface and has a license which isn't compatible with most Linux distributions policy. Why? CDF files are still used for space physics missions but few implementations are available. This is not a C++ wrapper but a full C++ implementation.

What plays cdf files