gdaWrite

Purpose

Writes a variable to a GAUSS Data Archive.

Format

retcode = gdaWrite(filename, x, varname)
Parameters:
  • filename (string) – name of data file.

  • x (matrix or array or string or string array) – data to write to the GDA.

  • varname (string) – variable name.

Returns:

retcode (scalar) –

return code, 0 if successful, otherwise one of the following error codes:

1

Null file name.

2

File open error.

3

File write error.

4

File read error.

5

Invalid data file type.

9

Variable name too long.

11

Variable name must be unique.

14

File too large to be read on current platform.

Examples

// Generate random variable x
x = rndn(100, 50);

// Create GDA `myFile`
retcode1 = gdaCreate("myfile.gda", 1);

// Write `x`  to `myfile` as x1
retcode2 = gdaWrite("myfile.gda", x, "x1");

Remarks

gdaWrite() adds the data in x to the end of the variable data in filename, and gives the variable the name contained in varname.

See also

Functions gdaWrite32(), gdaCreate()