How To Open Mat File In Octave

Or you want to pass some variables from scipy numpy into matlab.

How to open mat file in octave.

Start octave octave at the command line for me. Have you tried using the same command as in matlab. On 3 mar 2010 at 07 11 douchewhite wrote. On platforms other than windows the file extension does not necessarily relate to the data format.

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. To save us using a matlab license let s start in octave. The data in the mat file is stored with the same name as the variable originally had when it was saved. If you run help max you ll see that it can pass two outputs.

The first is the actual maximum and the second is the first index of the maximum value. Octave can now support multi dimensional hdf data and automatically modifies variable names if they are invalid octave identifiers. Atomic combat saved game files is another file format that has a similar file extension of mato but those types of files open with atomic combat. Oh and to display the contents of a variable in matlab octave you don t have to use disp.

Default this proprietary text format is not and never has been compatible with any of the publicly documented mat binary file formats. To open an m file you can use file open or type open filename. Assuming i ve understood this is actually very easy to do. I need to perform a functionfit on the basis of measured data in octave since i do not have the optim package in matlab and want to import the function parameters into matlab.

To get the name of this and all other environment variables type who. Hi does anybody know how to save all your variables in octave like a mat file in matlab. This is explained in the octave documentation. For instructions on how to open a data file see basic reading and writing data from a file.

Save the data in octave s text data format. Better if i can save a mat file in octave. The question is how can i import a mat file which was compiled in octave into matlab. Force octave to assume the file is in the binary format written by matlab version 4.

Force octave to assume the file is in matlab s version 6 or 7 binary format. You may have a mat file that you want to read into scipy.