Matlab Mat File Compression

Run the command by entering it in the matlab command window.
Matlab mat file compression. You clicked a link that corresponds to this matlab command. Name of file specified as a character vector or string scalar. Compress files into zip file. Zip and tar files.
If you do not specify filename the save function saves to a file named matlab mat. R2006b version 7 3 or later. You clicked a link that corresponds to this matlab command. If filename has no extension that is no period followed by text and the value of format is not specified then matlab appends mat if filename does not include a full path matlab saves to the current folder.
R2006b version 7 3 or later. Compression is sometimes used with v7 3. It looks though as only the first variable written to each file is compressed and all others are not. File compression and decompression.
Zip and tar files. File compression and decompression. Compress files into zip file. Extract contents of zip file.
So writing a small dummy variable to the file switches off compression for all subsequent variables. Mat file version supported matlab releases supported features compression maximum size of each variable value of version argument in save function preference option. In matlab versions 7 0 through 7 2 you could use the switches compress nocompress unicode and nounicode with the save function to enable or disable compression and unicode character encoding in the mat file being generated. Figure 1 1 matlab level 5 mat file format on page 1 3 graphically illustrates this mat file format.
Run the command by entering it in the matlab command window. Extract contents of zip file.