MATLAB Programming

Supported File Formats ............................ 6-21
Saving and Loading MAT-Files ...................... 6-23
Exporting Data to MAT-Files ........................ 6-23
Importing Data from MAT-Files ...................... 6-30
Accessing Files with Memory-Mapping .............. 6-34
Overview of Memory-Mapping in MATLAB ............ 6-34
The memmapfile Class ............................. 6-38
Constructing a memmapfile Object ................... 6-40
Reading a Mapped File ............................. 6-54
Writing to a Mapped File ........................... 6-59
Methods of the memmapfile Class .................... 6-67
Deleting a Memory Map ............................ 6-69
Memory-Mapping Demo ............................ 6-69
Importing Text Data ............................... 6-75
The MATLAB Import Wizard ........................ 6-75
Using Import Functions with Text Data ............... 6-75
Importing Numeric Text Data ....................... 6-78
Importing Delimited ASCII Data Files ................ 6-79
Importing Numeric Data with Text Headers ............ 6-80
Importing Mixed Alphabetic and Numeric Data ......... 6-81
Importing from XML Documents ..................... 6-83
Exporting Text Data ............................... 6-84
Exporting Delimited ASCII Data Files ................ 6-85
UsingthediaryFunctiontoExportData .............. 6-87
Exporting to XML Documents ....................... 6-88
Working with Graphics Files ........................ 6-89
Getting Information About Graphics Files ............. 6-89
Importing Graphics Data ........................... 6-90
Exporting Graphics Data ........................... 6-90
Working with Audio and Video Data ................. 6-92
Getting Information About Audio/Video Files ........... 6-92
Importing Audio/Video Data ......................... 6-93
Exporting Audio/Video Data ......................... 6-94
Working with Spreadsheets ......................... 6-97
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