Is there any way to read MATLAB's .mat files in Perl?

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I have some data generated in MATLAB that I want to process using Perl. I saved the data from MATLAB in a .mat file. Is there any way to read it in Perl?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

One option would be to save the binary MAT file as ASCII from inside MATLAB using something like:

load('test_data.mat');
save('test_data.asc', 'var1', 'var2', '-ascii');

Then you would have ASCII data to process in Perl.

If you need a solution completely written in Perl, then you should be able to automate the process using the Math::MATLAB package on CPAN.

NOTE: If Python is an option, you could use the loadmat function in the SciPy Python library.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 21 '10 at 22:50

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The Java library JMatIO has worked well for me. Maybe you can try using inline Java.

edited Jul 21 '10 at 22:50

Peter Mortensen

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answered Apr 07 '10 at 16:21

weiyin

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That sounds like a good idea, except I don't know Java at all :-( – Nathan Fellman Apr 07 '10 at 16:25

Is there any way to read MATLAB's .mat files in Perl?

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