fwrite to fread changes data completely!

Hello Friends,

I have a Vector or some length, say, 1 x N with real number entries.

I want to save this vector by using "fwrite" and then read it using "fread". I did the following:

fileID = fopen(Name, 'w');

fwrite(fileID, Vector, 'double', [number_of_rows number_of_columns]);
%Here [number_of rows number_of_cols] = size(Vector);

fclose(fileID);

In workspace, Vector shows of type 'double'

Next, for reading it, I did the following:

      fid = fopen(path_to_vector, 'r');

      output = fread(fid, [1 length_of_vector], 'double');

      fclose(fid);

However, the "output" shows completely different values than what I saved using "fwrite". I tried to change precision from double to type float, int, etc., but it does not work. How can I get exactly the same vector what I saved?

I will appreciate any advise!

[per isakson]

Are you writing and reading on the same system?

[hello_world]

Yes.

Answer 1

[per isakson]

This works for me on R2016a,Win7,64b. (Replacing real*8 by double doesn't change that.)

>> cssm( rand(1,1000) )
ans =
     1

where

function  ok = cssm( vec )
    fid = fopen( 'cssm.bin', 'w' );
    fwrite( fid, vec, 'real*8' );
    fclose( fid );
    fid = fopen( 'cssm.bin', 'r' );
    out = fread( fid, size(vec), 'real*8' );
    fclose( fid );
    ok = all(vec==out);
end

[hello_world]

Thanks you for reply!

I tried it before your answer and it worked for me too. The only difference in my previous code and this response is that while writing "fwrite", you do not use vector size. I do not know how does it make a difference.

[per isakson]

vector size &nbspis not a documented input argument of fwrite. See fwrite, Write data to binary file. IMO: fwrite ought to have issued at least a warning.