Re: Writing OCTAVE binary matrices and MATLAB .mat files

[David Bateman]

Daprès address@hidden <address@hidden> (le 01/12/2003):
> 
> Hi there
> 
> I am trying to write a standalone C program that can
> convert a matrix into a binary matlab file. The binary
> format is described here: 
> 
>  http://maxwell.me.gu.edu.au/spl/matlab-page/matfile_format.pdf
> 
> although previous posts to the octave lists say the 
> MatLab file format for Matlab 5 is proprierary - ????
> 
> In any case, I suppose this is an OT question:
> Does a standalone C library exist for writing matlab
> files? -- something like libpng but for matlab matrices
> instead of 2D png images?

No such a library doesn't exist, but doing something like this is a goal
of some recent changes in the code...

> Can someone tell me where in the octave source .mat files are
> formatted so that i don't need to wade through it all?

try in src/ls-mat{4,5,-ascii}.{cc,h}...

> if no such library exists, is anyone interested in helping
> me implement the pdf spec above?

Not at the moment.... :-)

D.

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