How to load rows of data into waves?

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Fri, 04/11/2014 - 07:50 am

Hi everyone,

I have some particularly annoying spectroscopic data that is provided as a text file (example attached). The data points are organised as rows separated by commas. My question is how would I go about getting this data formatted into waves (e.g. in the example I'd like 3 waves for rows wavelength, sample x1 and sample x2)?

Thanks a lot! annoying data.txt
In case the data in the attachment is split across several rows when you open it, please ignore that, because it comes on a single row for each sample.

Edit: actually this isn't always the case. Sorry for the confusion!

April 11, 2014 at 07:54 am - Permalink

Choose File->Example Experiments->Techniques->Load Row Data for an example of how to do this.

This shows how to use the WaveMetrics procedure file "Load Row Data.ipf" which provides the FLoadRowDataInto1DWave function. See comments in that file for details. You can use the Macros->Load Row Data menu item, added by "Load Row Data.ipf", to call the FLoadRowDataInto1DWave function.

If that does not do the trick please zip a sample file and post it along with an explanation of what you want to load from the file.

April 11, 2014 at 09:19 am - Permalink