Serialize/Deseriali​ze

This pair of functions can serialize and deserialize (i.e. encode and decode) almost any matlab object into a sequence of bytes. This will be useful for saving objects to disk, sending them over the network, or perhaps to other programs.

Any combination of structs, cells and matrices are supported. All the data types (i.e. all integer sizes, chars, bools, singles and doubles) are supported. They are automatically converted back to double on decoding, but you can easily change this.

I haven't tested it extensively, but it's quite short so any bugs should be easy to fix.

Usage is like this:

astruct.field1 = [1 2 3]; astruct.field2 = {'foo', 'bar', 'baz'};
serialized_astruct = serialize(astruct);
deserialized_astruct = deserialize(serialized_astruct);

After execution, astruct and deserialized_astruct should be equal.