How can I save a very large MATLAB sparse matrix to a text file?

Question

I have a 30000x14000 sparse matrix in MATLAB (version 7), which I need to use in another program. Calling save won\'t write this as ASCII (not supported). Calling full()

Answer 1

Did you try partitioning it ?

I mean try calling full() on the 1000 first rows (or 5000) and then repeat the process if it works.