Re: Help with fopen and fread

[Bill Denney]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Glenn Oliver wrote:

> Code in question is simple and works in matlab 7.13:
> fid = fopen("filename","r","ieee-be");
> freport
> [samplenum,countsamp] = fread(fid,Inf,"uint32",44,"ieee-be");
>
> and the error returned is this:
> error: fread: invalid stream number = -1
> error: called from `test_processor:get_incsum_tflp_from_raw' in file
> `/octave_files/test_processor.m'
> error: called from `test_processor' in file `/octave_files/test_processor.m'

The "invalid stream number = -1" error looks like the actual problem is 
the fopen line.  If fid is -1, there was an error during the fopen 
command, and you can see what it was by doing something like:

[fid, msg] = fopen("filename","r","ieee-be");
if (fid == -1)
  error ("Unable to open filename: %s", msg)
endif

which should give you more information.  (I didn't test this code, I just 
typed it into the e-mail.)

Bill

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