saving variables in workspace to m file

Hi I have long list of variables in my workspace which I would like to save in a m file, both names and corresponding values, can any one help please? thank you

[dpb]

What desired format and why a .m file (that is what, specifically, do you intend to do with it that couldn't do just as easily with save / load)?

It'd be simpler to use save to write a .mat file by far...

[Stephen23]

@Aditya: why not just save the data using one the methods that are easy to use and that are used by most MATLAB users? You can read about them here:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/data-import-and-export.html

Probably the easiest would be to use mat files.

Saving variables to an Mfile will not be simple.

[Konark Kelaiya]

Yes, saving into .mat is easy and recommend , because you will not achieve anything then just variable list and corresponding values.

If you have to use those variables and values other than MATLAB then it would be nice to save in some text file.

Ofcourse there is a way to save all variables from workspace to M-file. If you want that you can create few lines of code with

1. Get list of variables using "who" command.

2. Then use "eval" to get values for corresponding variable Name.

3. Once you get value create a string like ['Var_Name = [Values]'] and write one-by-one in M-file