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Is it possible to export the output expressions from Mathematica computations (e.g., equations) in valid MATLAB syntax?

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Which equations? Can you be more specific on what precisely it is you want to do? one equation? a list of them? Cut and paste? Programmatically export? – acl Nov 2 '12 at 22:23
@acl just an equation with Log s exponentials error functions. For example f[x_]=Log[...]+err[..]*Exp[..]. Something that sort. I know there is a command // InputForm but the output has for example $E$ which MATLAB will not understand. I only want to copy paste the equation to MATLAB. Still unclear? – Seyhmus Güngören Nov 2 '12 at 23:29

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There is the ToMatlab package that will convert Mathematica expressions to MATLAB equivalents. For example:

<<ToMatlab`
Expand[(x + Log@y)^5] // ToMatlab
(* x.^5+5.*x.^4.*log(y)+10.*x.^3.*log(y).^2+10.*x.^2.*log(y).^3+5.* ...
        x.*log(y).^4+log(y).^5; *)

It even conveniently breaks it using ... and can also convert matrices:

RandomInteger[5, {5, 5}] // ToMatlab
(* [5,0,5,3,4;
    5,5,3,0,2;
    1,4,4,4,4;
    0,3,2,5,5;
    4,5,5,1,1]; *)

However, it won't convert general definitions or things that don't make sense in MATLAB, such as patterns.

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Great! Thank you very much!! – Seyhmus Güngören Nov 3 '12 at 0:09
sorry but how can I use this package? – Seyhmus Güngören Nov 3 '12 at 0:28
You extract the ToMatlab.m file to $UserBaseDirectory/Applications/ – rm -rf♦ Nov 3 '12 at 0:41
ok. many thanks once again. – Seyhmus Güngören Nov 3 '12 at 3:08
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@TMH When you download the ToMatlab package from the linked site, you get a zip file. Unzip that file and copy the ToMatlab.m file to the location I mentioned. Replace $UserBaseDirectory with whatever is shown when you evaluate that in Mathematica. – rm -rf♦ Mar 30 at 18:25
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