Hi tye,
I'm sorry, but it didn't work...

Just to make sure I understood correctly:
I changed the print line from this:
print ($h pack ('l5Z*d*', $type, $m, $n, $imag, $len, $name, @a));
to this:
print ($h pack ('l5Z*'.('Z*'x@s), $type, $m, $n, $imag, $len, $name, @a));

and from the main routine called:
mat4_write ('foo', 3, 1, ('aaa','bbb','ccc'), *MAT);

If you have another idea I would love to try it.
If not, I will give it up and save string arrays as their ascii numbers representations and convert back to strings inside matlab...

Thanks and good night,
Koby

p.s: Does Perl has a built-in function that converts a string to an array of its ascii numbers representation?
i.e.: 'ABC' -> (65,66,67)

In reply to Re^7: Write Matlab binary MAT-files from Perl (repeat) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Write Matlab binary MAT-files from Perl by Anonymous Monk

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