How to read and store binary data from a file and store it into the MATLAB in row major using fread function?

I'd like to read in the binary file and generate 2 columns of data as shown in the text file.

The binary data consists of 16 bit signed integers from two channels of A/D data. The samples in the binary file alternate by channels, and it would be nice to turn the data into an array of two columns for the two channels.

For example consider a file contains following data:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

 I would like to read data as:

1     2

3     4

5     6

7     8

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

MATLAB always stores data into column major. But as workaround to this issue you can read the file as 2 rows and multiple columns and transpose the matrix to get expected result.

For example the file can be read as:

fileID = fopen('test1.bin');
A = fread(fileID,[2 inf],'int16');
B = transpose(A);
fclose(fileID);