myUtils

Miscellaneous functions/utilities for MATLAB

Last Updated: 30 April 2025

Table of Contents

Maybe I'll put some section headers here!

Functions

some key/most useful ones, in no particular order

decimateDir - (in dataProcessing/downsampling folder) decimate a directory of .wav or .flac filess within a single directory (see CRPTools/dasbr_utils/decimate for alternatives to process several subdirectories e.g., multiple DASBRs from a single cruise)

dist_km - calculates approx distance in km between two lat/lon points (requires Mapping Toolbox)

newFun - creates a function m-file with a template of proper help documentation newScript - creates a script m-file with a template of help documentation at the top

flac2wav - command line wrapper to decode a directory of .flac files to .wav wav2flac - command line wrapper to encode a directory of .wav files to .flac

stripEmpties - remove the '.' and '..' folders after running a dir command

unix2matlab - convert from Unix time (in seconds) to MATLAB datenum matlab2unix - convert from MATLAB datenum to Unix time in seconds

decdeg2degmin - switch between decimal degrees and degrees decimal minutes format for lat/lon data decdeg2degminsec - switch between decimal degrees and degrees minutes seconds format for lat/lon data degmin2decdeg - switch between degrees decimal minutes and decimal degrees format for lat/lon data degminsec2decdeg - switch between ddegrees minutes seconds and decimal degrees format for lat/lon data