MATLAB Function Reference Volume 1: A - E - Bad Request

cdfread
2cdfread
Purpose Read data from a CDF file
Syntax data = cdfread(file)
data = cdfread(file, 'records', recnum, ...)
data = cdfread(file, 'variables', varnames, ...)
data = cdfread(file, 'slices', dimensionvalues, ...)
[data, inf0] = cdfread(file, ...)
Description data = cdfread(file) reads all of the variables from each record of the
Common Data Format (CDF) file specified in the string, file. The function
returns a cell array, in which each row contains a record and each column
represents a variable.
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data = cdfread(file, 'records', recnums, ...) reads only those records
specified in the vector, recnums. The record numbers are zero-based. The
function returns a cell array having length(recnums) number of rows and as
many columns as there are variables.
data = cdfread(file, 'variables', varnames, ...) reads only those
variables specified in the 1-by-N or N-by-1 cell array of strings, varnames. Data
is returned in a cell array having length(varnames) number of columns and a
row for each record requested.
data = cdfread(file, 'slices', dimensionvalues, ...) reads specific
values from the records of one variable in the CDF file. The N-by-3 matrix,
dimensionvalues, indicates which records are to be read by specifying start,
interval, and count parameters for each of the N dimensions of the variable.
The start parameter is zero-based.
The number of rows in dimensionvalues must be less than or equal to the
number dimensions of the variable. Unspecified rows default to [0 1 M], where
M is the total number of values in a record. This causes cdfread to read every
value from those dimensions.
Because you can read just one variable at a time, you must also include a
'variables' parameter with this syntax.
[data, inf0] = cdfread(file, ...) also returns details about the CDF file
in the info structure.