matlab .data转成.mat文件

      接触一个数据集，找不到.mat可用文件的，于是自己琢磨怎么做。首先，用一个比较简单常见的数据集做示例。机器学习入门最经典的为鸢尾花的数据集。UCI上有iris.data，但是没有iris.mat，可以用其来练手。关于iris的介绍，网上很多，看官网的介绍（iris.names)主要看以下内容

The data set contains 3 classes of 50 instances each,
      where each class refers to a type of iris plant.  One class is
       linearly separable from the other 2; the latter are NOT linearly
       separable from each other.
    The 35th sample should be: 4.9,3.1,1.5,0.2,"Iris-setosa"
    where the error is in the fourth feature.
    The 38th sample: 4.9,3.6,1.4,0.1,"Iris-setosa"
    where the errors are in the second and third features.  

5. Number of Instances: 150 (50 in each of three classes)

6. Number of Attributes: 4 numeric, predictive attributes and the class

7. Attribute Information:
   1. sepal length in cm
   2. sepal width in cm
   3. petal length in cm