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RAWREAD Read N-dimensional Array From File

Section: Input/Ouput Functions

# Usage

The syntax for `rawread` is

       function x = rawread(fname,size,precision,byteorder)

where `fname` is the name of the file to read from, and `size` is an n-dimensional vector that stores the size of the array in each dimension. The argument `precision` is the type of the data to read in:

- 'uint8','uchar','unsigned char' for unsigned, 8-bit integers
- 'int8','char','integer*1' for signed, 8-bit integers
- 'uint16','unsigned short' for unsigned, 16-bit integers
- 'int16','short','integer*2' for signed, 16-bit integers
- 'uint32','unsigned int' for unsigned, 32-bit integers
- 'int32','int','integer*4' for signed, 32-bit integers
- 'uint64','unsigned int' for unsigned, 64-bit integers
- 'int64','int','integer*8' for signed, 64-bit integers
- 'single','float32','float','real*4' for 32-bit floating point
- 'double','float64','real*8' for 64-bit floating point
- 'complex','complex*8' for 64-bit complex floating point (32 bits for the real and imaginary part).
- 'dcomplex','complex*16' for 128-bit complex floating point (64 bits for the real and imaginary part).

As a special feature, one of the size elements can be 'inf', in which case, the largest possible array is read in. If `byteorder` is left unspecified, the file is assumed to be of the same byte-order as the machine `FreeMat` is running on. If you wish to force a particular byte order, specify the `byteorder` argument as

- `'le','ieee-le','little-endian','littleEndian','little'`
- `'be','ieee-be','big-endian','bigEndian','big'`