Movewave Function

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In the particular piece of code I have, I have waves that are chopped into 4 pieces, then each of those pieces have a standard deviation value ascossiated with each one. so for each wave inputted, 8 waves are outputted. for ex.

Wave in: Wave_1a
waves out: wave_1a_leg1, wave_1a_leg2, wave_1a_leg3, wave_1a_leg4, sdev_wave_1a_leg1,sdev_wave_1a_leg2,sdev_wave_1a_leg3,sdev_wave_1a_leg4

As you can see, my data browser quickly gets filled. the names of the waves are made with a pretty basic(?) naming procedure

          name=stringfromlist(q,filelist)
          variable Filenamelength=strlen(name)
          name = name[20,filenamelength-5]
          wave wname=$name


where the filelist is a list of all the file from a specific folder. This little snippet makes the wave name from part of the file name.

I want to extend this naming convention idea to moving these excessive number of files to separate folders named for their filename
I Thought doing something like this would work

      NewDataFolder/O  root:$name
      movewave tobemoved :$name


this does nothing....rather, it doesn't move anything, but it does correctly make the named folders

I've tried 

      NewDataFolder/O  root:$name
      movewave tobemoved :$name:


with an extra colon after the movewave folder, as that's how it normally works when i use reglular text without $. This however returns an error when I try to compile it

"A non existant data folder was referenced while acessing a child data folder"

I've tried to simply use my string "name" as I used in my example earlier where the string name references the file name "Wave_1a" from my first few lines. this simply looks for a folder called "name" and not one associated with the reference of name, which would be "Wave_1a".

I hope i've described my problem accurately thank you in advance for help!
You might also want to investigate how to use DFREF and SDFR to denote where specific content is stored.

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J. J. Weimer
Chemistry / Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAH

June 8, 2017 at 06:03 am - Permalink
It is actually legal to use a $ operator for a single name in the data folder path. But there is a significant gotcha to it: a colon can be part of a string expression so the following colon gets eaten up by the parser. Without actually trying it, it should work better like this: 
movewave tobemoved :$(name):


John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com

June 8, 2017 at 09:15 am - Permalink