MM_IO
Matrix Market
Read and Write Utilities

MM_IO is a MATLAB library which reads and writes files in the Matrix Market file format.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Related Data and Programs:

HB_IO is a MATLAB library which reads and writes sparse matrices stored in the Harwell-Boeing format.

HB_TO_ST is a FORTRAN77 program which converts the sparse matrix information stored in a Harwell-Boeing file into a sparse triplet file.

MM is a data directory which contains a description and examples of the Matrix Market format for storing matrices.

MM_IO is available in a C version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

MM_TO_HB is a MATLAB program which reads the sparse matrix information from an MM Matrix Market file and writes a corresponding HB Harwell Boeing file.

MM_TO_MSM is a MATLAB program which reads a Matrix Market file defining a sparse matrix, and creates a corresponding MATLAB sparse matrix data structure.

MM_TO_ST is a MATLAB program which reads the sparse matrix information from an MM Matrix Market file and writes a corresponding ST Sparse Triplet file.

MSM_TO_MM, a MATLAB program which writes a MATLAB sparse matrix to a Matrix Market file;

SPARSE is a built-in MATLAB function which creates and manipulates sparse matrices.

ST_TO_MM, a MATLAB program which converts a sparse matrix file from ST format to MM format (Matrix Market format);

TEST_MAT is a FORTRAN90 library which defines various test matrices.

Reference:

1. http://math.nist.gov/MatrixMarket/ the Matrix Market web site.
2. Ronald Boisvert, Roldan Pozo, Karin Remington,
   The Matrix Market Exchange Formats: Initial Design,
   National Institute of Standards and Technology,
   NISTIR 5935, December 1996,
   Available online at ../../pdf/mm_format.pdf

Source Code:

• ch_cap.m capitalizes a single character.
• mm_comment_print.m prints a comment line from a Matrix Market file.
• mm_comment_write.m writes a comment line to a Matrix Market file.
• mm_file_read.m reads an entire Matrix Market file.
• mm_file_write.m writes an entire Matrix Market file.
• mm_header_check.m checks the header information of a Matrix Market file.
• mm_header_print.m prints header information from a Matrix Market file.
• mm_header_read.m reads the header information from a Matrix Market file.
• mm_header_write.m writes the header information to a Matrix Market file.
• mm_nnz_set.m sets the value of NNZ in certain cases.
• mm_size_print.m prints size information from a Matrix Market file.
• mm_size_read_file.m reads the size information from a Matrix Market file.
• mm_size_read_string.m reads the size information from a string that has been read from a Matrix Market file.
• mm_size_write.m writes the size information to a Matrix Market file.
• mm_values_print.m prints the matrix value information from a Matrix Market file.
• mm_values_print_some.m prints some of the matrix value information from a Matrix Market file.
• mm_values_read.m reads the matrix value information from a Matrix Market file.
• mm_values_write.m writes the size information to a Matrix Market file.
• r8_to_c8.m constructs a C8 from two R8's.
• s_eqi.m is TRUE if two strings are equal, ignoring case and trailing blanks.
• s_len_trim.m returns the length of a string to the last nonblank.
• s_neqi.m is TRUE if two strings are not equal, ignoring case and trailing blanks.
• timestamp.m prints the YMDHMS date as a timestamp.

Examples and Tests:

• mm_io_test.m, runs all the tests.
• mm_io_test01.m, tests MM_HEADER_WRITE.
• mm_io_test01.mm, the partial matrix file created by test #1.
• mm_io_test02.m, tests MM_HEADER_READ.
• mm_io_test03.m, tests MM_COMMENT_WRITE.
• mm_io_test03.mm, the partial matrix file created by test #3.
• mm_io_test04.m, tests MM_COMMENT_READ.
• mm_io_test05.m, tests MM_SIZE_WRITE.
• mm_io_test05.mm, the partial matrix file created by test #5.
• mm_io_test06.m, tests MM_SIZE_READ_FILE or MM_SIZE_READ_STRING.
• mm_io_test07.m, tests MM_VALUES_WRITE.
• mm_io_test07.mm, the matrix file created by test #7.
• mm_io_test08.m, tests MM_VALUES_READ.
• mm_io_test09.m, tests MM_FILE_WRITE.
• mm_io_test09.mm, the matrix file created by test #9.
• mm_io_test10.m, tests MM_FILE_READ.
• mm_io_test_output.txt, the output file.
• matrix_05_05_crg.txt, a 5 by 5 matrix in COORDINATE REAL GENERAL form read by some routines, and written by others.
• wathen_29_28_adg.txt, a 29 by 29 matrix in ARRAY DOUBLE GENERAL form written by one of the test routines.

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