mdfAddAttachment

Attach file to MDF-file

Syntax

mdfAddAttachment(mdfFile,attachmentFile)

mdfAddAttachment(mdfFile,attachmentFile,Name=Value)

Description

mdfAddAttachment(mdfFile,attachmentFile) attaches the attachmentFile to the specified mdfFile.

To attach multiple files, call this function separately for each file.

mdfAddAttachment(mdfFile,attachmentFile,Name=Value) makes the attachment using additional options to control the means of attachment, to add a comment about the file, and to specify the media type.

Note

This function does not support MDF3 files.

Examples

Add an Attachment to an MDF-File

Attach a CSV-file by emdedding it in an MDF-file.

mdfAddAttachment("MDFFile.mf4","AttFile.csv",Embedded=true,Comment="Year-End",MIMEType="text/csv")

Input Arguments

mdfFile — MDF-file name

string | char

MDF-file name, specified as a string or character vector, to add the attachment to. The file name can be a relative or absolute path.

Example: "MDF_25Dec.mf4"

Data Types: char | string

attachmentFile — File to be attached

string | char

File to be attached, specified as a string or character vector. The file name can be an absolute path or relative to the MDF-file location.

Example: "Inv_MDF_25Dec.txt"

Data Types: char | string

Name-Value Arguments

Specify optional pairs of arguments as Name1=Value1,...,NameN=ValueN, where Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name-value arguments must appear after other arguments, but the order of the pairs does not matter.

Example: Embedded=true

Embedded — Specify to embed attached file

false (default) | true

Specify to embed attached file, as true (logical 1) or false (logical 0). This option determines whether the attachment is physically embedded in the MDF-file. If true, the attachment file is added as an embedded attachment. If false (default), the attachment file is added externally by referencing the attachment file path.

If you move an MDF-file that has attachments that are not embedded, you might also have to move the attached files.

Example: Embedded=true

Data Types: logical

Comment — Comment about attached file

string | char

Comment about attached file, specified as a string or character vector.

Example: Comment="Stress Test Template"

Data Types: char | string

MIMEType — Media type and subtype of attached file

"application/ext" (default) | "type/subtype"

Media type and subtype of the attached file. The default is "application/ext", where "ext" is the file name extension. For more information on standard media types, see the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Media Types.

Example: MIMEType="text/csv"

Data Types: char | string

Version History

Introduced in R2022a