{"id":438,"date":"2011-01-17T22:09:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T22:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/desktop\/2011\/01\/17\/mat-file-comparisons\/"},"modified":"2011-01-17T22:09:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T22:09:50","slug":"mat-file-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2011\/01\/17\/mat-file-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"MAT-File Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In MATLAB R2008a, we <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2008\/05\/05\/file-and-folder-comparison-tool-update-in-r2008a\/\">introduced the ability to compare MAT-files<\/a> with the File and Folder Comparison Tool. In MATLAB R2010b, the team has added additional detail to the MAT-file comparisons. This includes the size and type of the variables in the MAT-file. While pretty simple, having this summary in the comparison reports saves you from having to open both files in the variable editor to see these changes.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the MAT-file comparisons looked like before:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>R2008a MAT-file Comparison<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/michael_katz_mat_file_comparisons\/10a_matfile.png\" alt=\"MAT-file comparisons in R2008a\">\n<\/div>\n<p>And now they have this additional detail. Pretty sweet. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>R2010b MAT-file Comparison<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/michael_katz_mat_file_comparisons\/10b_matfile.png\" alt=\"MAT-file comparisons in R2010b\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In MATLAB R2008a, we introduced the ability to compare MAT-files with the File and Folder Comparison Tool. In MATLAB R2010b, the team has added additional detail to the MAT-file comparisons. This&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2011\/01\/17\/mat-file-comparisons\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[76,74,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}