edfRead

A simple file reader for European Data Formatted (EDF-) files.

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Editor's Note: This file was selected as MATLAB Central Pick of the Week

The edfRead() functionality in this submission is now officially provided by the Signal Processing Toolbox as of R2020b. This File Exchange submission is no longer supported

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Brett Shoelson (2026). edfRead (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/31900-edfread), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
2.10.0

Added mention of the blog about edfread in the Signal Processing Toolbox.

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2.10.0-0

Modified the description to cite EDFReadUntilDone. No code changes.

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2.1.0

Minor bug fix in name of file.

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2.0.0

Fixed a problem triggered by the license conversion on Sept.1, 2016.
Also, I have tried to address the out-of-spec value of -1 for numberOfFiles seen in some edf files.

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1.6.0

Updated license

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1.6.0-0

Enabled the import of a user-specified subset of signals. Also fixed a problem when signal labels include spaces or difficult-to-interpret characters.

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1.3.0

Fixes a problem with incorrect reading of variable-length signals.

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1.1.0

Added copyright.

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1.0.0

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