How I can save a table into a dbf format

I have the following error. Any help?:

dbfwrite(IT, 'mytable.dbf');

Error: File: dbfwrite.m Line: 1 Column: 1

Invalid text character. Check for unsupported symbol, invisible character, or pasting of non-ASCII characters.

[dpb]

## Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Philip Nienhuis
## Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Matthew Parkan
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
## (at your option) any later version.
##
...

The m file looks like mayhaps it was to be preprocessed with something that would convert the "##" characters to valid comments in MATLAB-acceptable syntax, maybe??? That's the problem; MATLAB can't interpret the file with those as comments.

It also has many other non-valid syntax elements -- the use of "!" instead of "~" as the not operator and too many others to list...

[Dimitrios Poulos]

Thank you DB for your answer. Do you know any other way to make this conversion?

[dpb]

Not off top of head, no, never use .dbf files myself any more.

Where did you get the m-file from? Surely there's information there on how to make it work.

Or, you could try to patch it by hand-edits; it looks like the base code is mostly intact; not sure just what must have been the purpose behind it being in the form it is other than whatever code development toolset that was used must have a preprocessor that does such...

[Stephen23]

@dpb: the hash is a valid comment symbol in GNU Octave:

https://docs.octave.org/v4.0.3/Single-Line-Comments.html#Single-Line-Comments

[Dimitrios Poulos]

Thank you all for your help

[dpb]

I wondered about Octave; haven't had a version of it installed in 20 years+ now; didn't realize they had diverged so much from the compatibility of user code syntax. Knew were/are extensions, not aware went to the root of such basics.

@Dimitrios Poulos should be able to clean it up to run without too much extra trouble then, it would seem. I did a global substitution for the "##" comments and then found the "!" for NOT and quit after that, having no real need.