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The following table shows the file formats that you can import and export from the MATLAB application.
In addition to the functions in the table, the Import Wizard and the importdata function support all listed formats, except:
Motion JPEG 2000 and platform-specific video
H5 and netCDF
The Import Wizard supports HDF files, but importdata does not.
File Content | Extension | Description | Import Function | Export Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MATLAB formatted data | MAT | Saved MATLAB workspace | ||
Text | any | White-space delimited numbers | save -ascii | |
Delimited numbers | ||||
Delimited numbers, or a mix of strings and numbers | ||||
Spreadsheet | XLS | Microsoft® Excel® worksheet | ||
XLSB | Formats supported on Windows® systems with Excel 2007 or later | |||
ODS | OpenDocument™ Spreadsheet, supported on Windows systems with Excel 2010 or later (OpenDocument is a trademark of OASIS™, the open standards consortium) | none | ||
| Extensible Markup Language | XML | XML-formatted text | ||
| Data Acquisition Toolbox™ file | DAQ | Data Acquisition Toolbox | none | |
Scientific data | CDF | Common Data Format | See cdflib | See cdflib |
FITS | Flexible Image Transport System | none | ||
HDF | Hierarchical Data Format, version 4, or HDF-EOS v. 2 | See hdf | See hdf | |
H5 | HDF or HDF-EOS, version 5 | See hdf5 | See hdf5 | |
NC | Network Common Data Form (netCDF) | See netcdf | See netcdf | |
| Image | BMP | Windows Bitmap | ||
GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | |||
HDF | Hierarchical Data Format | |||
JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group | |||
JP2 | JPEG 2000 | |||
PBM | Portable Bitmap | |||
PCX | Paintbrush | |||
PGM | Portable Graymap | |||
PNG | Portable Network Graphics | |||
PNM | Portable Any Map | |||
PPM | Portable Pixmap | |||
RAS | Sun™ Raster | |||
TIFF | Tagged Image File Format | |||
XWD | X Window Dump | |||
CUR | Windows Cursor resources | none | ||
FITS FTS | Flexible Image Transport System | |||
ICO | Windows Icon resources | |||
Audio file | AU | NeXT/Sun sound | ||
WAV | Microsoft WAVE sound | |||
Video (all platforms) | AVI | Audio Video Interleave | ||
MJ2 | Motion JPEG 2000 | |||
| Video (Windows) | MPG | MPEG-1 | VideoReader | none |
ASF | Windows Media® | |||
any | Formats supported by Microsoft DirectShow® | |||
| Video (Windows 7) | MP4 | MPEG-4 | VideoReader | none |
MOV | QuickTime® | |||
any | Formats supported by Microsoft Media Foundation | |||
| Video (Mac®) | MPG | MPEG-1 and MPEG-4 | VideoReader | none |
MOV | QuickTime | |||
any | Formats supported by QuickTime, including .3gp, .3g2, and .dv | |||
| Video (Linux®) | any | Formats supported by your installed GStreamer plug-ins, including .ogg | VideoReader | none |
 | Supported File Formats | Importing Data |  |
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