How can i store a .mat file into a variable?

i want get the syntax to store a .mat file into a variable.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

   fid = fopen('YourMatFile.mat', 'r') ;
   YourVariable = fread(fid, '*uint8').' ;
   fclose(fid) ;

YourVariable is now a row vector of bytes that make up the mat file.

This kind of thing can be useful if you need to transmit a mat file over wireless or Ethernet, but otherwise has limited use.

.... But perhaps the answer you were looking for was just

YourVariable = load('YourMatFile.mat');

[sam CP]

i just want to get a function like normal=xlsread('normal.xlsx'); Above is the syntax to read an excel file but here instead of , i have to read the .mat file

[Walter Roberson]

.mat files typically have multiple variables.

If you have exactly one variable stored in a .mat file, then

   mat_filename = 'YourMatFile.mat';

   temp = load(mat_filename);
   fn = fieldnames(temp);
   first_variable = fn{1};

   normal = temp.(first_variable);

   clear temp

This can be abbreviated to

FirstCell = @(C) C{1};

temp = load('YourMatFile.mat');
normal = temp.(FirstCell(fieldnames(temp)));

[Kieran Graham]

Hi, I am also having a similar problem. I have 23 variables stored in my temp.mat file. Is it possible to use these values by simply using load('temp.mat', 'variable1', 'variable2', ....) or will I need to recover the values 1 by 1?

Thanks

[Stephen23]

@Kieran Graham: the recommended approach is to simply load into an output variable

S = load(...);

All of your variables will be fields in the scalar structure S, and are trivial to access.