#pragma rtGlobals=3		// Use modern global access method and strict wave access.


//this programme has the general purpose of loading a wave from a data file manually selected from
//the user and it returns the wave

Function load_wave_from_file()

	
	
	Newpath/O/Q/M="choose a file containing a N-Dim matrix" PathToWave
	Loadwave/O/M/P=PathToWave
	Wave load_wave, TraceContainerSignal
	Duplicate/O TraceContainerSignal, load_wave
	print "The wave dimension is "+num2str(Wavedims(load_wave))
	killwaves TraceContainerSignal
	
	return load_wave	
       
end