Read .raw file in matlab?

Question

I have data from https://coastalmonitoring.org/realtimedata/index.php?chart=97&tab=1Hz%20Data&disp_option=2 in formate .raw. How do I read this file in matlab?

It is sequential data, 1 dimentional data.

I have trid to use fopen, but the numbers I get seems to be weird.

% Open the raw file
fid = fopen('BidefordBay}2024-01-25T12h00Z.raw', 'r');
data = fread(fid, [1000, 50], 'double');

% Close the file
fclose(fid);

Answer 1

A .raw dataset is as its name suggests, raw, uncooked. No change done to the bytes.

This means that there is no unique way to read .raw datasets, and that you just need to know how to "cook" it, you need to know if its double or other data type, the size, the length, if it contains a header, if its endianness, if it has compression, encryption etc.

Can you do it in MATLAB? yes of course. But each .raw file will need a separate function, and we can't really help you figure out what your .raw looks like.