TDMS Reader

Read TDMS files v1 & v2 without DLL

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Cite As

Jim Hokanson (2026). TDMS Reader (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/30023-tdms-reader), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired: loadDemonVoltTDMS

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
2.6.0

- added complex data reading support
- bug fix for skipping channels where data are strings
- fixed issue where first segment didn't define objects
- lots of documentation updates

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1.13.0

Added simple usage example to description

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1.12.0

Just added a link to the description

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1.11.0

Bug fix (potentially silent bug), see version notes file.

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1.10.0

Fixed some bugs with interleaved data, as well as a bug in reading timestamp data (not properties) which failed with dates prior to 1904.

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1.9.0

Fixed a bug in which an error check I had in place was incorrectly being thrown.
Fixed parsing of object names with ' and / characters.

Also allows for only reading .tdms_index files (for debugging)

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1.8.0

2.2 Update:
Improved speed and specificity with regard to subset handling

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1.7.0

I was a bit quick with the last update (v2.0). It had some bugs with respect to parsing subsets of the data.

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1.4.0

The main update to version 2 is the ability to retrieve a subset of the data from channels. In addition I've added some extra wrappers to handle data retrieval.

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1.3.0

Ver. 1.2 - I had an incorrect minus sign when reading the timestamp property which yielded an invalid year. Data timestamp reads were correct and previously tested :)
Thanks to Ed Zechmann for pointing out the problem! Added extra conv. script v3

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1.2.0

Fixed a major bug with reading unicode. Other small bug fixes and improvements can be seen in TDMS_VERSION_INFO.

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1.1.0

Updated description

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1.0.0

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