fopen (Matlab function)

Open a file or obtain information about open files

Matlab/Scilab equivalent

Matlab Scilab

fopen

`mopen`_

Particular cases

Access permission:  Matlab offers two permissions options not supported by Scilab: W and A (for tape drives)

: :Input values: In Matlab, fopen(‘all’) lists all opened files,

in Scilab, this type of call for fopen does not exist. You can also use fopen in Matlab to get information on a file identifier ( fopen(fid)), this case is not implemented in Scilab.

: :Machine format: Note that Scilab does not support machine format

values as input or output.

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Matlab fopen can return an error message but not Scilab mopen, moreover, returned file identifier is -1 in case of error in Matlab but does not exist in this case in Scilab, so an emulation function has been written mtlb_fopen.