Creating a *.mat file
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Hello, I want to create a *.mat file, for example named bathymetry. This array called bathymetry I want to be formed by 3 other arrays, for example, x, y and z. In a way, that when I charged the mat file it transforms into three files called x, y and z.
I've tried my easy way: for example: bathymetry=[x,y,z], but when I charged it, it's only 1 file called bathymetry and I want to have them separetely.
Please help me.
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the cyclist
on 12 Feb 2013
Do you mean this?
% Create some variables
x = rand(3);
y = magic(3);
z = eye(3);
% Save the variable x,y,z into one *.mat file
save bathymetry.mat x y z
% Clear them out of the workspace
clear x y z
% Load them again
load bathymetry.mat
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chaos4u2
on 13 Feb 2013
eevee
on 26 Nov 2014
Hi,
May I know how to do the other way round? I have got a .mat files with x,y,z. And I need to save the x,y,and z variables into a .xyz file in matlab?
Thanks!
the cyclist
on 26 Nov 2014
What is a .xyz file?
Also, I suggest you open a new question, with full details of your question, instead of burying your question as a comment in a year-old thread. It was pure luck that I happened to stumble on your comment.
Walter Roberson
on 22 Sep 2016
Machine Learning & Power Systems Ali comments
error when i save in .mat
Walter Roberson
on 22 Sep 2016
Machine Learning & Power Systems Ali: we are going to need more detail than that. What is your code, and what is your exact error message?
matija corak
on 26 Jan 2015
0 votes
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matija corak
on 26 Jan 2015
I already tried with load and audioread and so on. Than I tried that sound convert in .wav and he still does not recognize that file. When I put for example load pcela.wav % pcela.wav is my name of that recorded sound Error using load Unknown text on line number 1 of ASCII file pcela.wav "RIFF’_".
Am I doing something wrong? Please help me I don't have no idea anymore and I cant find anything similar on web.
Lobna Ragab
on 15 Jan 2016
How can I add many records to that file, I mean like
save filename X Y
X = 1,2,3,4
Y = 5,6,7,8
like table?
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nitish kumar
on 28 Feb 2023
just use the array like
X=[1,2,3,4]
Y=[5,6 7,8]
save filename.mat X Y
geetu yadav
on 5 Apr 2016
0 votes
svmStructDisease = svmtrain(diseasefeat,diseasetype); in this code how to create diseasefeat and diseasetype file?
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Shivaprasad S
on 13 Apr 2016
Same problem I am also facing please give some idea how to create I don't know anything please
Machine Learning Enthusiast
on 22 Sep 2016

@ the cyclist
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Bjorn Gustavsson
on 22 Sep 2016
That typically means that you don't have write permissions in the current directory. Move to somewhere else (cd...) and try again.
HTH
Walter Roberson
on 22 Sep 2016
You are probably cd'd to a directory that is underneath the MATLAB installation. The directory that MATLAB starts executing in is not necessarily your personal MATLAB directory.
ramya anandan
on 7 Jun 2017
0 votes
thank you so much Bjorn Gustavsson
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Santhan S
on 15 Jan 2018
Thanks a lot.....
Saravanan Nagesh
on 27 Mar 2018
0 votes
@Machine Learning Enthusiast
Check the following code for the path of the current Matlab folder
path = pwd
use 'cd' to change it to another folder with write access.
usually, the default folder for Matlab code in most cases is" 'C:\Users\xxx'"
changing it to another drive solves this
tuncel3
on 2 Jul 2021
First define a file name with its location
saveFileName='datafiles\filename2.mat';
next use below code to create an empty .mat file
save(saveFileName);
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