MAT_VARWRITEAPPEND(3)

NAME
Mat_VarWriteAppend - Writes/appends a MATLAB variable to an HDF5 format MATLAB MAT file.

SYNOPSIS
#include <matio.h>
int
Mat_VarWriteAppend(mat_t *matfp, matvar_t *matvar, enum matio_compression compress, int dim);

DESCRIPTION
The Mat_VarWriteAppend() function writes (and optionally appends) the MATLAB variable matvar to the MAT file matfp which must be opened for writing. If the MATLAB variable already exists in the MAT file, the new data is appended to this variable along the (index 1 based) dimension d. The compress option allows the variable to be written using zlib compression if available. If compression is not available, the variable is written uncompressed.

RETURN VALUES
The function returns 0 if the variable was successfully written/appended to the MAT file. Otherwise, an error value is returned.

EXAMPLES
This example program creates a MAT file named by the first argument to the program, and writes the variable named m_pi to the file in order to build a 2x1 array.

    #include <math.h>
    #include "matio.h"

    int
    main(int argc, char **argv)
    {
        mat_t    *matfp;
        matvar_t *matvar;
        size_t    dims[2] = {1, 1};
        double    m_pi = M_PI;

        matfp = Mat_CreateVer(argv[1], NULL, MAT_FT_MAT73);
        if ( NULL == matfp ) {
            fprintf(stderr, "Error creating MAT file %s, argv[1]);
            return EXIT_FAILURE;
        }

        matvar = Mat_VarCreate("m_pi", MAT_C_DOUBLE, MAT_T_DOUBLE,
                               2, dims, &m_pi, 0);
        if ( NULL != matvar ) {
            int dim = 1;
            Mat_VarWriteAppend(matfp, matvar, MAT_COMPRESSION_ZLIB, dim);
            Mat_VarWriteAppend(matfp, matvar, MAT_COMPRESSION_ZLIB, dim);
            Mat_VarFree(matvar);
        }

        Mat_Close(matfp);
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
    }

SEE ALSO
Mat_CreateVer(3), Mat_Open(3), Mat_VarRead(3), Mat_VarWrite(3)