LOAD Retrieve variables from disk. LOAD fname retrieves the variables from the MAT-file 'fname.mat'. LOAD, by itself, loads from the file named 'matlab.mat'. LOAD xxx.yyy reads the ASCII file xxx.yyy, which must contain a rectangular array of numeric data, arranged in m lines with n values in each line. The result is an m-by-n matrix named xxx. To load an ASCII file that does not have a filename extension, use LOAD fname -ascii. Otherwise MATLAB adds the extension '.mat' and tries to load it as a MAT-file. To load a MAT-file that does NOT have a '.mat' extension, use LOAD fname.ext -mat. If fname is "stdio", LOAD reads from standard input. See also SAVE, SPCONVERT, FSCANF, FPRINTF.