how to read an integer array in MEX-function

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Madhu picture Madhu · Jun 6, 2011 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

I am passing an integer array of uint8 type from MATLAB to a MEX-function. How do I read these values? I tried using:

int *n;
n = (int * ) mxGetData(prhs[0]);

but the values come out as junk. I also tried

double *n;
n= mxGetPr(prhs[0]);

and in this case junk values also appear.

What is the solution to this?

Basically I want to read the integer value in the MEX-function but mxGetPr returns double type.

Answer

SCFrench picture SCFrench · Jun 6, 2011

Take a look at the demo MEX-function explore.c, which you can open in MATLAB using

edit([matlabroot '/extern/examples/mex/explore.c']);

In there you'll find a bunch of functions whose names all start with analyze_ and then a type (for example, analyze_uint8). In those functions you'll see the output of calls to mxGetData being cast to a particular C type, like this:

pr = (unsigned char *)mxGetData(array_ptr);

pr now points to the real part of array_ptr, an array of unsigned char.

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