Getting Started

M-Files

You can create your own matrices using M-files, which are text files containing MATLAB code. Use the MATLAB Editor or another text editor to create a file containing the same statements you would type at the MATLAB command line. Save the file under a name that ends in .m.

For example, create a file containing these five lines.

•     A = [ ...
      16.0     3.0     2.0    13.0
       5.0    10.0    11.0     8.0
       9.0     6.0     7.0    12.0
       4.0    15.0    14.0     1.0 ];
  

Store the file under the name magik.m. Then the statement

• magik
  

reads the file and creates a variable, A, containing our example matrix.

The load Function

Concatenation