Using MATLAB
A primer on MATLAB is given in Napolitano,
Appendix D, pp 419 ff
Running it
When you open it, it defaults to three
windows: Command, current
directory/workspace, history
Simple calculations can be made in the
command window step by step
Long or repeated calculations should be
done with a program (.m) file (start one by
clicking File..New..M File)
Inputting data:
x=[0:1:20] creates an array [0 1 2 3 ... 20]
(start at 0, increment in steps of one, until
you get to 20)
x=[1 3 5 3 8] creates an array with the
values given
load c:\mydata\mine.txt loads space or tab
delimited columns of ascii numbers into an
array of that name.
A matlab 6.5 variant is B=load('mine.dat'),
which names the vector array
(make sure you include the correct path to
the data)
A different approach is to read the data
from a file in a specific format
fid=fopen('sc1.lis');
a=fscanf(fid,'%f')';
fclose(fid);
