To identify or change the default mat file version access the mat files.
Matlab mat file version.
Learn more about matlab io matfile matfile type file format matlab.
Headers from a file saved as v6 v7 and v7 3 in matlab 2015a are shown below preceded by the version in.
The only exception to this is when you create new mat files using the matfile function.
In this case the default mat file version is 7 3.
Matlab releases r2006b and later all support all mat file versions.
In order to save your data to a mat file with version 7 3 or later specify the v7 3 flag as the version input argument.
Matlab 7 5 r2007b 18 1 6 0 september 1 2007 last release for windows 2000 and powerpc mac.
Name of file specified as a character vector or string scalar.
By default all save operations create version 7 mat files.
By default all save operations create version 7 mat files.
Note that the headers for v6 and v7 files have the same 5 0 identification.
Matlab releases r2006b and later all support all mat file versions.
In this case the default mat file version is 7 3.
The only exception to this is when you create new mat files using the matfile function.
The save variables to version 7 3 mat file example on that page shows the exact syntax.
Figure 1 1 matlab level 5 mat file format on page 1 3 graphically illustrates this mat file format.
This is also true of a version 7 3 file.
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As a side note i find it highly ironic that the proprietary v6 v7 mat format is more cross platform compatible due to its documentation compared to the v7 3 format that is supposed to rely on the standard hdf5 format and yet is sufficiently different in a non documented manner to make this format unusable on any platform outside matlab.
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To identify or change the default mat file version access the mat files.
Although the bulk of the file is in binary form the header of a level 5 mat file can be read with a text editor.
Hdf5 based mat file support matlab 7 4 r2007a 17 1 5 0 07 2007 march 1 2007 new bsxfun function to apply element by element binary operation with singleton expansion enabled.
If you do not specify filename the save function saves to a file named matlab mat.
