NAME

     Mat_CreateVer, Mat_Create — Creates a MATLAB MAT file.

SYNOPSIS

     #include <matio.h>

     mat_t *
     Mat_CreateVer(const char *matname, const char *hdr_str, enum mat_ft mat_file_ver);

     mat_t *
     Mat_Create(const char *matname, const char *hdr_str);

DESCRIPTION

     The Mat_CreateVer() function creates a MATLAB MAT file opened for write access.  The hdr_str
     is a string written in the file header of MAT version 5 and 7.3 (HDF) files.  Only the first
     128 bytes of the string is written.  If hdr_str is NULL, then a default string is written
     that contains the platform, date, matio library version.

     The mat_file_ver argument specifies the MAT file version to create.  The matio library can
     write version 4 files (MAT_FT_MAT4), version 5 files (MAT_FT_MAT5), and an HDF5 file format
     introduced in MATLAB version 7.3 (MAT_FT_MAT73).

     The Mat_Create() function is equivalent to calling Mat_CreateVer() with MAT_FT_DEFAULT as
     the file version.

EXAMPLES

     #include <stdlib.h>
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include "matio.h"

     int main(int argc, char **argv)
     {
         mat_t *matfp;

         matfp = Mat_CreateVer(argv[1], NULL, MAT_FT_73);
         if ( NULL == matfp ) {
             fprintf(stderr, "Error creating MAT file %s0, argv[1]);
             return EXIT_FAILURE;
         }

         Mat_Close(matfp);
         return EXIT_SUCCESS;
     }

SEE ALSO

     Mat_CreateVer(3), Mat_Close(3)