matlab.io.fits.writeHistory
Write or append HISTORY keyword to CHU
Syntax
writeHistory(fptr,history)
Description
writeHistory(fptr,history)
writes (appends) a HISTORY keyword to the CHU.
The history keyword, specified as a character vector or string scalar, is continued over
multiple keywords if it is longer than 70 characters.
This function corresponds to the fits_write_history
(ffphis)
function in the CFITSIO library C API.
Examples
import matlab.io.* fptr = fits.createFile('myfile.fits'); fits.createImg(fptr,'byte_img',[100 200]); fits.writeHistory(fptr,'this is a history keyword'); fits.closeFile(fptr); fitsdisp('myfile.fits','mode','full');