List available Import elements

Import a variable with label "y":

Export an array of numbers to a MAT-file:

If no variable name is given, the default variable name "Expression1" is used:

Export data with custom variable name:

Export multiple variables to a file. Variable names must be explicitly given:

Export a SparseArray:

Export an array of strings:

Export an array of expressions of possibly different types:

Export an array of associations with consistent keys into a "structure" array:

Import comments from a MAT file, which often contains the version and additional comments:

Import data from all variables in the file:

Import a variable by its label:

Import the data type of each variable in the file:

Import the dimensions of each variable in the file:

Import data as a list or namedata rules, for all variables in the file:

Create a file with two variables:

Import one of the variables:

Import variables whose name matches a string pattern:

Import variable names in the same order as they are stored in the file:

Import the summary of the file, which includes file name, MAT format version, variable count and file size:

Import the version of the MAT file specification in which the file has been saved:

Export a large numeric array. By default, the data will be compressed (equivalent to level 1):

Export data with no compression:

Compression is not supported in MAT version 4:

By default, an automatic header is created:

Specify a header, which is stored after the MAT version number:

The header can be imported using the "Comments" element:

The header cannot be too long:

By default, a new file is created for each call to Export:

With OverwriteTargetFalse, existing files will not be overwritten:

To append variables at the end of an existing file, use OverwriteTarget"Append":

A variable being appended to an existing file should have a new name: