gdaGetTypes#

Purpose#

Gets the types of all the variables in a GAUSS Data Archive.

Format#

vartypes = gdaGetTypes(filename)#

Parameters:: filename (string) – name of data file.
Returns:: vartypes (Nx1 vector) – types of all the variables in the GDA.

Examples#

vartypes = gdaGetTypes("myfile.gda");

Remarks#

The return vartypes may contain any of the following:

6	Matrix
13	String
15	String array
21	Array

If gdaGetTypes() fails, it will return a scalar error code. Call scalerr() to get the value of the error code. Valid error codes for this command include:

1	Null file name.
2	File open error.
4	File read error.
5	Invalid file type.
8	Variable not found.
10	File contains no variables.
14	File too large to be read on current platform.