about 'load' imperative sentence

hello!

my professor gives me homework.

but, i am wondering about homework.

professor wirte source code like this. " load twolink.dat"

is that right sentence?

i know 'load' imperative sentence is applied .mat flile or ascil file.

in advance, thank you about answering

[Stephen23]

"is that right sentence?"

Although for historical reasons load can import text files, I strongly recommend using a function that is specifically for reading text data, e.g. textscan or readtable or readmatrix or dlmread or similar.

I recommend avoiding the command syntax (except from the command line whilst experimenting with the data), instead use function syntax (and import the file data into a variable):

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/command-vs-function-syntax.html

Answer 1

[Durganshu]

load command imports files and data in the MATLAB workspace. As far as .dat file is concerned, a .dat file may contain any kind of information. It could be a binary file or a text based file. There is no standard format for them. In order to load them into workspace, you need to know the format of the .dat file and then decide what commands you need to use. Using just load function may not work. You can use uigetfile for your purpose. You can try implementing this code:

[file_name, file_path] = uigetfile('*.dat', 'Select your file');
file = fullfile(file_path, file_name);
data = load(file);

Hope this helps!

[상태 박]

thank you about your answer!

but i need to think more about my homework

thanks to your answer, i understand about 'uigetfile' command!