Octave Mat Files

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Octave mat files. Save the data in octave s text data format. Default this proprietary text format is not and never has been compatible with any of the publicly documented mat binary file formats. Octave s default so called mat file format is not a binary mat file at all it is in fact a text file format that octave developed for itself. Octave can now support multi dimensional hdf data and automatically modifies variable names if they are invalid octave identifiers.

It is not expected to work for matlab s new hdf5 based mat file format or any other arbitrary hdf5 files. If you do not specify filename the save function saves to a file named matlab mat. Anyway if what you want is to save data in the matlab binary format have a look at the mat binary option for the save command. Octave s load function is only expected to be able to read hdf5 files that are created by octave s save function in hdf5 format.

Hgsave saves figures to files fig by default. Hello i want to create a mat file for example named bathymetry. I ve marked this as a feature request. The files are saved in your current directory as seen on the top of the window.

Force octave to assume the file is in the binary format written by matlab version 4. Save saves data to files mat by default not true in octave 4 files have no extension uisave includes user interface. 5 how do i open mat files in matlab octave. Could you please open a new question if you have a new or follow up question about how to execute this particular program instead of if it s possible in general.

Name of file specified as a character vector or string scalar. This is explained in the octave documentation. Sagittarius nov 24 16 at 4 16. Better if i can save a mat file in octave.

This array called bathymetry i want to be formed by 3 other arrays for example x y and z. Diary filename saves all the text input in the command window to a text file. Force octave to assume the file is in matlab s version 6 or 7 binary format. On platforms other than windows the file extension does not necessarily relate to the data format.

If filename has no extension that is no period followed by text and the value of format is not specified then matlab appends mat if filename does not include a full path matlab saves to the current folder. Then if you type y you should see the signal vector and if you type fs you should see the frequency. I tried to execute mat file in octave but it was failed to load it. You can use the load command to open mat files.