Read Matlab settings form matlab.mlsettings

Starting with Matlab R2020a, Mathworks switched from matlab.settings, a plain text-file with a xml structure, to matlab.mlsettings, a binary file with no known (to me!) structure. Since I used the old file to get some useful informations about the Matlab instance (in order to integrate some external application), I would like to know how to read/import/understand the new file.

Answer 1

[Marco Pasquali]

After some research, I can answer my own question: `matlab.mlsettings` can be simply unzipped to recover the informations needed. The uncompressed archive is composed of several folders, each with some plain-text file with data encoded in a json-like structure.