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matwrite()

Usage:
matwrite(fileName, a, b, ... [, new:T, format:Fmt, nsig:n, sep:sepChar,\
  quoted:T or bylines:T,missing:mVal, name:Name, comments:charVec,\
  width:w, header:F, oldstyle:T, stripdols:T]), a, b, ... arbitrary
  variables, Fmt, sepChar and Name CHARACTER scalars with sepChar only a
  single character, charVec a CHARACTER vector or scalar, mVal a REAL
  scalar, w >= 30 integer.



Keywords: files, output
                                  Usage
matwrite(FileName,a,b,... [,new:T]) writes REAL, LOGICAL and CHARACTER
variables a, b,...  (scalars, vectors, matrices, or arrays) file
FileName in a form which can be read by read() and matread().  It can
also write NULL variables and structures.  GRAPH variables are legal
arguments but are currently written as NULL variables.  See topic
'NULL'.

matwrite(a,b,...,file:FileName [,new:T]) is an alternative usage.

                   matwrite() compared with matprint()
matwrite() differs from matprint() only in the default format used for
REAL and LOGICAL variables.  It uses the format used by write(), namely
the format specified by option 'wformat'.  This normally provides 9
significant digits.  It is provided to make it easier for you to write
data sets with increased precision without having explicitly to provide
a format.

                         Changing default format
You can change the default format for write() and matwrite() by
setoptions() using keyword 'wformat'.  See topics setoptions() and
'options'.

                            Cross references
See matprint() for information on keywords 'missing', 'sep', 'name',
'header', 'width', 'quoted', 'bylines', and 'comments', macrowrite() for
information on 'oldstyle' and 'stripdols', and print() for information
on keywords 'nsig' and 'format'.

See topic 'matread_file' for a description of the file format.

See also topics print(), write(), matwrite(), macrowrite(), read(),
matread(), 'files'.


Gary Oehlert 2005-08-12