Proposal: MAT-File reading module

[Ben Bullock]

Greetings Quantified Onion members.

I am proposing a new Perl module for reading (and in the future possibly writing) the MATLAB MAT-File format. If anyone here uses or wants to use this format I would appreciate your input. The place to go is

http://prepan.org/module/44xKQxfiW3

You can also fork the code on github here:

https://github.com/benkasminbullock/Data-MATFile

I hope to hear from you on prepan. If prepan is inconvenient, please reply here, or to me by email, or even by the github issue tracker.

Ben Bullock

[gizmomathboy]

Ben,

This is an awesome thing.

Anything to wean folks off of the matlab addiction.

gizmo

[Ben Bullock]

I've now put this on CPAN:

https://metacpan.org/release/Data-MATFile

It should install with

cpan Data::MATFile

There is a script in the distribution called "mat2json" which converts a MAT-File into JSON. This means that people who are interested in using this can test the distribution with a ".mat" file. The JSON is not pretty-printed, so something like

mat2json "your.mat" | json_xs

is recommended, and then the output can be examined to see whether it corresponds to the output expected. (json_xs can be replaced with json_pp here.)