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.

See also

Functions gdaGetNames(), gdaRead()