How do I use the functional form of the LOAD and SAVE commands?

I would like to use the functional form of the LOAD and SAVE commands.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The documentation and help entries for the SAVE function:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/save.html

This describes the basic syntax for this command. You can also type the following at the MATLAB command prompt:

help save

for extensive syntax explanation.

Here is an additional example:

var1 = [10 20 30];
var2 = 'var2';
save('fname','var1','var2')
var3 = 100;
save('fname','var3','-append')

The syntax is the same for the LOAD command. For example, the following code will SAVE each column of a variable 'a' to different ascii files:

a = rand(6);   %make a
filename = ['a1.txt';'a2.txt';'a3.txt';'a4.txt';'a5.txt';'a6.txt';];   %list your file names
for i = 1:length(a)
  temp = a(:,i);    
  save(filename(i,:),'temp','-ascii');   %save to the specified file
end