CurveFit + mask wave with own destination wave

In the example you give, omit the /D flag and add a line to assign the fit result to the output wave:

There's a lot of this type of thing in my baselines package, which is mostly a GUI for performing masked fits. For most of the built-in functions you have to type in the equation to make the wave assignment, but for Gauss fit there's the gauss1D function that works with the coef wave from CurveFit.

The behavior of /D=<your wave> with masked or subrange fits is intended to allow you to do consecutive fits on different subranges, keeping the results of both fits. You can pre-fill your destination wave with your choice of value. I usually assign NaN to the wave. I have toyed with the notion of adding a flag, something like /DFIL=<value>, but that's something you can do easily yourself, so it's not compelling, especially given the number of flags for the CurveFit and FuncFit operations that already exist.

Thanks Tony and John for the replies.

Yes, my use case is actually very similar to the baseline package and I am using a poly fit (the Gaussian was just for demonstration). I see that I can just use result = poly(coef,x) here and be done with it, just as suggested by Tony. So I guess the case is solved.

I see now that this behavior is intended, and I somewhat see the point. At first I thought I am missing a flag or this was even a bug. Maybe a small note either in the help for the /M or /D flags would avoid confusion?