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mdfRemoveAttachment

Remove attachment from MDF-file

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    Syntax

    mdfRemoveAttachment(mdfFile, attachmentFile)

    Description

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    mdfRemoveAttachment(mdfFile, attachmentFile) removes the attachmentFile from the specified mdfFile.

    To remove multiple files, call this function separately for each file.

    Note

    This function does not support MDF3 files.

    Examples

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    Identify the files attached to an MDF-file and remove the unwanted one.

    List the attached files from the MDF-file information struct.

    info = mdfInfo("MDFFile.mf4");
info.Attachment.Name
    ans =

    'inv_prelim.txt'


ans =

    'inv_final.txt'


ans =

    'inv_temp.txt'

    Remove the unwanted attachment.

    mdfRemoveAttachment("MDFFile.mf4","inv_temp.txt")

    Input Arguments

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    MDF-file name, specified as a string or character vector, to remove the attachment from. The file name can be a relative or absolute path.

    Example: "MDF_25Dec.mf4"

    Data Types: char | string

    File to be removed, specified as a string or character vector. To precisely identify the attachment to remove, the specified file name string must exactly match the attachment name as stored in the MDF-file, which can be found in the Attachment.Name field of the file information struct returned by mdfInfo.

    Example: "Inv_MDF_25Dec.txt"

    Data Types: char | string

    Version History

    Introduced in R2022a

    See Also

    Functions