Matlab users coming from other languages often notice the missing functionality contained within this user-developed, unofficial "stdlib" for Matlab. These system, filesystem, and HDF5 / HDF4 / NetCDF functions are useful across several of our own and others projects.
The absolute minimum Matlab release is R2021a.
Self-tests can be run from that matlab-stdlib/ directory:
buildtool
The "matlab-stdlib" package uses Java functions throughout, with the higher-level java.nio.Files and the classic java.io.File classes.
That is, if Matlab was started with -nojvm, many of the stdlib filesystem function do not work.
Stdlib for Matlab was partly funded by NASA NNH19ZDA001N-HDEE grant 80NSSC20K0176.