# How to copy a vector from Matlab to Freefem
**URL:** https://community.freefem.org/t/how-to-copy-a-vector-from-matlab-to-freefem/267
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/how-to-copy-a-vector-from-matlab-to-freefem/267 "2020-02-25T16:24:50Z")
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### Author:  [@lietvo](https://community.freefem.org/u/lietvo)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/how-to-copy-a-vector-from-matlab-to-freefem/267/1 "2020-02-25T16:24:50Z")
Hello everyone,
I want to copy a vector from Matlab which contains 1000 values to Freefem, I tried to read the manual book but I can’t see how to do it! I don’t want to do it by hand because it’s too much! So, how to do it?
Thank you for any comments!
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### Author:  [@henkel](https://community.freefem.org/u/henkel)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/how-to-copy-a-vector-from-matlab-to-freefem/267/2 "2020-02-26T13:47:17Z")
A blunt way to do this is to export the data from matlab as ascii, e.g. with `save vector.txt -ascii yourvector` and then read it in with FreeFem in the following way:
```
int nol = 1000; // length of your vector
real[int] data(nol);
ifstream file1("vector.txt");
for (int cnt = 0; cnt < nol; cnt++){
file1 >> data(cnt);
}
```
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### Author:  [@lietvo](https://community.freefem.org/u/lietvo)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/how-to-copy-a-vector-from-matlab-to-freefem/267/3 "2020-03-01T18:19:20Z")
Thank you very much! It works!