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- From: dhampton@carson.u.washington.edu (David Hampton)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
- Subject: Saving a filename
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:57:39 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- I have prompted a user for a data filename using
- filename=input('Data file to read: ', 's');
- and now I need to do some manipulations on the file to break it
- into matrices for Matlab to load. This is most easily done with
- shell commands from my m-file, but I have to pass the string in
- "filename" to the shell so that I can manipulate the selected file
- (Matlab wont export variable values to shell commands).
- One way might be to save the filename as
- save tmp_file filename -ascii
- but this just saves digits for the letters of the filename. Is there
- a way to save the actual ascii text to a file?
-
- -- Dave Hampton
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