datasave#

Purpose#

Saves matrices, N-dimensional arrays, strings and string arrays to a disk file.

Format#

ret = datasave(filename, x)#

Parameters:

filename (string) – name of data file.
x (matrix, array, string or string array) – data to write to disk.

Returns:

ret (scalar) – return code, 0 if successful, or -1 if it is unable to write the file.

Examples#

// Create random matrix
x = rndn(1000, 100);

/*
** Save x to file named
** myfile.fmt
*/
ret = datasave("myfile.fmt", x);

Remarks#

datasave() can be used to save matrices, N-dimensional arrays, strings and string arrays. The following extensions are given to files that are saved with datasave():

matrix	.fmt
array	.fmt
string	.fst
string array	.fst

Use dataload(), or loadd() to load a data file created with datasave().