How to convert .txt file to .dat?

I created a text file in matlab and wrote my data on it. Now I need to convert this text file to .dat. How should I do this?

[Walter Roberson]

You need to define what the dat file format should be. The .dat file extension is is used for a wide variety of unrelated file formats. There is no standard at all as to what needs to be in a .dat file. It depends on the program that will need to read the data.

[Nooshdokht Bayatafshary]

I want use that in Ubuntu. It will be my inputs for modeling. I can change the format with command window ('ren *txt *dat'), but I want change it with matlab.

[Stephen23]

"I can change the format with command window ('ren *txt *dat')..."

That command does not change the file format in any way whatsoever, it just changes the file extension. Changing the file extension is easy with MATLAB: movefile.

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[Walter Roberson]

You can call movefile() if all you need is to change the file extension.

You can probably just change the code to open a .dat for writing instead of .txt but that depends on how the code creates the file.