diff --git a/Build.PL b/Build.PL
index 3d036ea..03df474 100644
--- a/Build.PL
+++ b/Build.PL
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ my $builder = Module::Build->new(
     license           => 'perl',
     build_requires => {
         'Test::Most' => 0,
+        'File::Temp' => 0,
         'File::Spec' => 0,
     },
     configure_requires => { 'Module::Build' => 0.38 },
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 632b972..9848fd2 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+
+    * Add save_to_file/new from file (Alberto Simões)
+
 Changes in v2.11 - Jonathan "Duke" Leto
 January 2014
 --------------------------
diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 922e611..bb2e00d 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ Many people deserve recoginition for their help with Math::MatrixReal:
 *	Mike South <msouth@fulcrum.org> for the new_from_cols() and new_from_rows() functions
 	that were integrated from Math::MatrixReal::Ext1
 
+*   Alberto Simões <ambs@cpan.org> for contributions.
+
 *	Everybody involved with CPAN Testers, thanks guys/gals!
 
 
diff --git a/lib/Math/MatrixReal.pm b/lib/Math/MatrixReal.pm
index ecc5fd7..f1deb77 100644
--- a/lib/Math/MatrixReal.pm
+++ b/lib/Math/MatrixReal.pm
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ require Exporter;
 $VERSION = '2.11';
 
 use overload
-     '.'   => '_concat',
+       '.' => '_concat',
      'neg' => '_negate',
        '~' => '_transpose',
     'bool' => '_boolean',
@@ -2813,6 +2813,40 @@ sub _min_column {
 }
 
 
+sub save_to_file {
+    my ($matrix, $filename) = @_;
+
+    open my $fh, ">", $filename or
+      croak "Math::MatrixReal save_to_file: could not create file '$filename': $!";
+
+    # probably faster than creating a full string in memory
+    my ($rows, $cols) = $matrix->dim();
+
+    for my $r (0..$rows-1) {
+        for my $c (0..$cols-1) {
+            print $fh $matrix->[0][$r][$c];
+            print $fh "\t" unless $c == $cols-1;
+        }
+        print $fh "\n";
+    }
+    close $fh;
+}
+
+sub new_from_file {
+    my ($class, $filename) = @_;
+    my $m = [];
+
+    open my $fh, "<", $filename or
+        croak "Math::MatrixReal new_from_file: could not open file '$filename': $!";
+
+    while (<$fh>) {
+        chomp;
+        push @$m, [split /\s+/];
+    }
+
+    return $class->new_from_rows($m);
+}
+
 
                 ########################################
                 #                                      #
diff --git a/t/save2file.t b/t/save2file.t
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eede3b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/save2file.t
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+use Test::More tests => 4;
+use File::Spec;
+use lib File::Spec->catfile("..","lib");
+use Math::MatrixReal;
+use File::Temp 'tempfile';
+
+do 'funcs.pl';
+
+my $matrix = Math::MatrixReal->new_from_string(<<"MATRIX");
+
+    [  1    5    9  ]
+    [  2    6   10  ]
+    [  3    7   11  ]
+    [  4    8   12  ]
+
+MATRIX
+
+my ($fh, $filename) = tempfile();
+
+$matrix->save_to_file($filename);
+
+close $fh;
+
+ok -f $filename, "save_to_file: created output file";
+
+my $other = Math::MatrixReal->new_from_file($filename);
+
+isa_ok $other, 'Math::MatrixReal', "new_from_file: created a Math::MatrixReal object";
+
+ok_matrix($matrix, $other, "new_from_file: loaded matrix is the same!");
+
+
+assert_dies(sub { Math::MatrixReal->new_from_file(File::Temp::mktemp("tmpfileXXXXX")) },
+            "new_from_file: dies on non-existent file");