How to save an ascii file?

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Wed, 01/26/2011 - 01:58 am

Hi everybody,

I have Igor waves, and I would like to write on a file two columns, one wave and the second one. But the file should be an ASCII one, without any extension.

I succeed to do it in a .txt file with the wfprintf function, but then I cannot open it with another program I must use.

I also thougth about making a 2 columns wave, and then save it, but I am not sure that the file will be ASCII. Moreover, I am doing this operation in a loop, so that I save 116 files each time, and then I cannot write 116 times the name of the wave...

I am a bit lost, does anybody know how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance

Barbara
Suppose your two waves are called wave0 and wave1, then you would define a path before the loop:
newpath/o/q mypath
and in the loop:
Save/O/G/M="\r\n"/DSYM=""/P=mypath wave0,wave1 as "asciiFile".
In that case the two columns are tab-delimited. If the loop cycles through a bunch of waves you have to pass the waves and the name of the ascii file dynamically to the save operation. That's where the /B flag of the Save operation might come in handy (displayhelptopic "Save").
You may want to kill the path afterwards (after the loop):
killpath mypath
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January 26, 2011 at 04:46 am - Permalink

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January 26, 2011 at 10:32 am - Permalink