read4b

read4b — fortran file binary read

Calling sequence

x=read4b(file-name,m,n [,rec])  

Parameters

file-name : string or integer
m, n : integers (dimensions of the matrix x). Set m=-1 if you do not know the numbers of rows, so all the file is read
rec : vector of positive integers. the selected records for direct access. This vector size must be equal to the number of rows of desired x.

Description

binary read of the matrix x in the file file-name. Matrix entries are supposed to have been stored on 4 byte words.

For direct record access, file must have been previously opened using file function to set the record_length. file-name must be the result of the file function.

See also

file, write, writb, mget, write4b