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I asked this Q on stackoverflow (and also a couple of colleagues) but still no answer

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11142962/extracting-bdf-from-matlab-generated-set-file

Anyone know how to extract the embedded .bdf? From the ascii header, the file seems to be generated with Matlab 5 but beyond the header the data seems stored as binary

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do you have access to MATLAB? – rm -rf♦ Jun 29 '12 at 3:01
no, but could buy it if necessary. Was hoping for an intrinsic MMA solution – alancalvitti Jun 29 '12 at 3:08
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Well, MMA can probably do it, but someone will have to write the code to read the header and read the bytes in order, and this is not an easy task without the exact specifications. Also, being a rather obscure and very specific format for a specific application, such a solution won't have general applicability either, to make it worth the time. However, MMA can read regular MAT files and HDF5 files (I don't think they can read structs, only variables) and converting it to one of these would be a simpler option. Of course, if you have MATLAB, you might as well convert it your preferred format – rm -rf♦ Jun 29 '12 at 3:27

closed as too localized by rm -rf♦ Jan 22 at 17:38

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