Saves a set of variables to a file in a machine independent format. There are two formats for the function call. The first is the explicit form, in which a list of variables are provided to write to the file:
save filename a1 a2 ...
In the second form,
save filename
all variables in the current context are written to the file. The
format of the file is a simple binary encoding (raw) of the data
with enough information to restore the variables with the load
command. The endianness of the machine is encoded in the file, and
the resulting file should be portable between machines of similar
types (in particular, machines that support IEEE floating point
representation).
You can also specify both the filename as a string, in which case you also have to specify the names of the variables to save. In particular
save('filename','a1','a2')
will save variables a1
and a2
to the file.
Here is a simple example of save
/load
. First, we save some variables to a file.
--> D = {1,5,'hello'}; --> s = 'test string'; --> x = randn(512,1); --> z = zeros(512); --> who Variable Name Type Flags Size D cell [1 3] s string [1 11] x double [512 1] z float [512 512] ans double [] --> save loadsave.dat
Next, we clear all of the variables, and then load them back from the file.
--> clear all --> who Variable Name Type Flags Size --> load loadsave.dat --> who Variable Name Type Flags Size D cell [1 3] s string [1 11] x double [512 1] z float [512 512] ans double []