read4b

Scilab Function
Last update : April 1993

read4b - fortran file binary read

### Calling Sequence

  `x=read4b(file-name,m,n [,rec])`

### Parameters

- `file-name` : string or integer
- `m, n` : integers (dimensions of the matrix x). Set m=-1 if you do not know the numbers of rows, so all the file is read
- `rec` : vector of positive integers. the selected records for direct access. This vector size must be equal to the number of rows of desired `x` .

### Description

binary read of the matrix `x` in the file `file-name` . Matrix entries are supposed to have been stored on 4 byte words.

For direct record access, file must have been previously opened using `file` function to set the record_length. `file-name` must be the result of the `file` function.

### See Also

`file` , `write` , `writb` , `mget` , `write4b` ,