Anyway if what you want is to save data in the matlab binary format have a look at the mat binary option for the save command.
Saving the data to a mat file in octave.
14 1 3 simple file i o.
This time since it is a mat file octave will load it with the original variable name.
Save a single matrix in a text file without header or any other information.
On platforms other than windows the file extension does not necessarily relate to the data format.
Save the data in octave s binary data format but only using single precision.
As an example the following code creates a 3 by 3 matrix and saves it to the file myfile mat.
Hgsave saves figures to files fig by default.
Diary filename saves all the text input in the command window to a text file.
Save saves data to files mat by default not true in octave 4 files have no extension uisave includes user interface.
The default format of files written by the save command can be controlled using the functions save default options and save precision.
I m playing with large pointcloud data in octave different files ranging from 10 5 to 10 7 4 elements and i m looking for ways to optimize the code.
To save data in a human readable form use save filename txt variable ascii.
Right now i am trying to save the data into a mat file as i ve read somewhere confirmation needed that loading from a mat file is much faster than loading the actual data txt file every time.
Better if i can save a mat file in octave.
Save the data in octave s binary data format.