May I know what does the following code do "uint8=>char"?

May I know what does the following code do "uint8=>char"? Where can I find more documentation on those kind of operation? Thanks.

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

That looks like a precision specification for a call to the fread function. That section of the fread documentation page indicates that tells fread to interpret the data it's reading from the file as uint8 data and to return the data in the char data type.

Answer 2

[Adam]

As far as I'm aware that is not valid Matlab code unless it is used in context somewhere related to file reading precision. More on this at

doc fread

under 'precision'

If that is the context you mean then it just tells the file reading function that the data in file is unsigned 8 bit, but should be read into Matlab as a char.