Difference between .m and .mat files

What's the difference betwwen .m and .mat files? can a file from .m format be converted automatically to .mat?

Many thanks in advance for your answer!

Answer 1

[Andreas Goser]

• MATLAB code is in files with extension .M.
• MATLAB data is in files with extension .MAT.

Thus, you can't always "convert". But if your MATLAB code just contains variable assignments, yes then you can "convert"

Assuming you have a file testm.m with the assigments

a=1
b=2

then you would convert by running the file and then save a MAT file

testm
save('testmat.mat')

Answer 2

[saptesh pandit]

how do I provide communication between script and simulink model. And is it possible to run model and script simultaneously.

[Andreas Goser]

Which is a totally different question and I suggest to ask as a new one.