Current directory window, MATLAB

Change the current directory in MATLAB (at the top of the command window) to a directory in which you wish to save your work and save it as f.m. 

The icon is the command prompt. Anything entered after this is a MATLAB command. The Current Directory window displays folders and files associated with... 

In the previous sections we have used MATLAB commands that were typed in on the desktop command line, as well as MATLAB commands that invoke special stored MATLAB files, called m files. When starting to work with MATLAB, we advise our users to create a special folder for their personal MATLAB m files once and to continue to use this folder to store personal m files. To access the stored m files from the MATLAB desktop, the user has to point the small desktop window called Current Directory to the personal m file folder. Then all stored m files, as well as all built in MATLAB functions can be accessed, called upon, and used from the command line. All stored personal... 

To demonstrate how to import data from another application into the MATLAB environment, let us assume that the experimental data exist in a file sheet such as Excel. The data represent the yearly incoming surface erythemal solar UV radiation dosage (J per cm ) for a clear sky, after modulation due to average cloud cover, as a function of earth latitude. The data were excerpted from M. Ilyas [Climate augmentation of er5 hemal UV-B radiation dose damage in the tropics and global change, Curr. Sci. 93(11) 1604-1608, 2007]. For simplicity, the file was copied to, or moved into, one of the MATLAB search path directories so that it will appear in the Current Folder Window of MATLAB (Fig. 5.1). 

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