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What does fopen('text.txt', 'wt') mean in MATLAB?

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I tried help fopen,

but there is no explanation what t means .

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user198729 Avatar asked Apr 16 '10 06:04

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From the documentation (R2009a, Windows):

On UNIX systems, binary and text modes are the same.

On Windows systems, binary and text modes are different. If you are unsure which mode is best for your file, use binary mode. By default, fopen opens files for binary read access.

In binary mode, read and write operations process all characters in the same manner. In text mode:

  • Read operations that encounter a carriage return followed by a newline character remove the carriage return from the input.

  • Write operations insert a carriage return before any newline character in the input.

The UNIX version (R2009b) goes on to add (in doc fopen):

For better performance, do not use text mode.

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JS Ng Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 17:10

JS Ng


It's similar to PHP and other languages in that the t does stand for "text" mode; however, the meaning is a little different.

In MATLAB, if you open a file in text mode, it strips line endings from input before the lines are processed or manipulated, then readds them for output; binary mode, indicated with a b, performs no such newline stripping.

See the fopen reference.

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Tim Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 17:10

Tim