Marcel Leutenegger

Dear Zeyn Saigol,

thank you for your feedback. Indeed, I use in a few functions (size, rand, randn, ...) mathematical library functions mlfXxxx() by MATLAB. They were shipped as LIBMATLBMX.DLL up to R13. But since, the compiler was greatly improved (optimization and inlining of code), such that these functions are now compiled into the executable. So the library became obsolete and is no longer available. For size(), you can just use this m-function:

%Size of matrix.
%
function varargout=size(o,d)
if ~isa(o,'extended')
   [varargout{1:nargout}]=size(o,double(d));
elseif nargin > 1
   d=double(d);
   if d < 1
      error('Dimension number must be a non-negative integer.');
   end
   varargout{1}=size(o.extended,d+1);
elseif nargout > 1
   [o,varargout{1:nargout}]=size(o.extended);
else
   o=size(o.extended);
   o=o(2:end);
   if numel(o) < 2
      o(2)=1;
   end
   varargout{1}=o;
end

I am planing of updating the elementary calculation packages for newer MATLAB releases. As of R2008a, MATLAB benefits of multi-threaded calculations on multi-core CPUs. As of now, my functions achieve top performance per core but do not even try to use multi-threading... So long, if all calculations are to be performed many times independently, users can just start several MATLAB instances.

Hello together,
I'm using this very handy script now for a few weeks without any problem. But today, for all my Andor files I measured today, I get this strange error:
Error using sifread>readString (line 136)
Inconsistent string.

Error in sifread>readSection (line 100)
info.dataType=readString(f);

Error in sifread (line 51)
[data,next]=readSection(f);

Error in nscs_01_sifread (line 13)
[data,back,ref]=sifread(filename)

Error in run (line 57)
          evalin('caller', [s ';']);

I think it's most likely an error of the Andor software, because I didn't change the matlab code at all. However, the Andor software didn't change as well! Did anyone had a similar problem or knows which function can influence the error? The sif-files have the correct size and can be reopenend by the Andor software.
Would be happy about any comment.
Cheers
Sven

Works Great, Thank you