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Mo Sani
Mo Sani

Reputation: 408

MATLAB writing text file "invalid permission" in UBUNTU

I'm trying to use MATLAB to write a text file in a folder other than "current folder" in UBUNTU. This folder is located in home directory so there would be no permission problem. I'm using the code that is shown below:

folder = '~/newFolder';
s1=fopen(folder,'newText.txt','w');
fprintf(s1,'hi')
fclose(s1);

But when I run the program, it shows invalid permission error. It would worth to mention that I've no problem when I try to write the text in the current folder. I also tried chmod 0777 -R ~/newFolder to modify the permission with no success. What shall I do?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 835

Answers (1)

Salman
Salman

Reputation: 1006

If you take a look at to the fopen in Matlab documentation, you see that the second input argument in permission (that is related to the own function NOT your OS):

fileID = fopen(filename)
fileID = fopen(filename,permission)

But you are passing the filename as a second parameters. you need to concatenate filepath and filename :

s1=fopen(strcat(folder, 'newText.txt'),'w');

Upvotes: 1

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