I have an .m file with store variables, how do I call it in a script to get the stored variables?

I have an .m file that looks like this:

%Information
%Information
%Information    
C = [1 1 0 0 0;
1 0 1 0 1;
0 1 1 1 0;
0 0 0 1 1];
Sx = [1 0 0;
0 0 0;
0 0 0;
0 0 0];
Sy = [0 1 0;
0 0 1;
0 0 0;
0 0 0]
X = [0 1 .5 1 .5];
Y = [0 0 1 1 .3];
L = [0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0];

I am trying to save each line of "info" as a separate string per line to be displayed later, and then call the variables, C, Sx, Sy, X, Y, L in a script. How do I do this?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

For example in your other m-file script:

C_copy = C;
Sx_copy = Sx;
plot(X, Y);
regionprops(L);

and so on. Note, that works because the first script leaves those variables in the base workspace. If it were a function, they'd be gone once the function gets done running.

[james]

Thanks (new to matlab).

2 questions: If wanted to get the information in the notes of the script to be displayed later, how would I get that?

Also, if I wanted to ask the user to input the name of the script with the above information. for example,

filename=input('Please enter the file name:'), how would I go about calling the filename and use it above. So, the user calls the file name with the information above, and I'm able to use the variables in that file. This is so I don't have to change the script each time I want to call another file with a different set of inputs.

[Image Analyst]

You can use uigetfile() to have the user select the file. Don't make them know the name of the file in advance and have to type it in - that's cruel.

You can get comments (I assume that's what you mean by "notes") by opening the file with fopen(), reading line by line with fgetl() and using strfind() to look for percent symbols that are not enclosed within a string (look for single quotes), and take the rest of the line after the percent symbol. You may also want to take a look at lookfor().