RMVAR: MEX function to delete variables in a MAT file

This function deletes variables from a MAT file without loading the data onto Matlab.

rmvar(MATFILE,VARNAME1,VARNAME2,...) deletes the listed variables (VARNAME1, VARNAME2, etc.) from the MAT-file specified by the string MATFILE.

rmvar(MATFILE,{VARNAME1,VARNAME2,...}) is an alternate way to call, specifying the variable names in a cell array.

The function is implementd as a MEX function and the accompanied C++ source file must be compiled first by

mex rmvar.cpp

See mex documentation on how to configure the MEX compiler function.