How do you open .mat files in Octave?
Question
I have a .mat
file that I want to open and see its contents. Since I don't have MATLAB, I downloaded GNU's Octave. I'm working on Mac's terminal so I'm not exactly sure how to open the .mat
file to see its contents.
How to do this?
Solution
Not sure which version of .mat
file you might have, or whether Octave keeps up with the latest Matlab formats.
Here's a link that might be a good start.
Bottom line is that you can say: load MyMatFile.mat
right at the Octave prompt.
In case you wind up having to write code to read the .mat
file ever: I've done this before and it was not difficult, but was time-consuming. Mat file format for 2012a
OTHER TIPS
If your file contains only numbers, no .mat
header, then this should work:
variable = load("filename")
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