Importing Waves

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We have an imaging system that allows multiple wavelength measurements on multiple cells. The data file it outputs lists the data in columns as "cell_1_wv_1" "cell_1_wv_2" then "cell_2_wv1" etc...

To be able to plot all the data for one wavelength for all cells i need to plot every second column in the data file. Is there a way to tell Igor to import every second wave from a file? I've had to do things manually during the import, which is a pain when there are 50 cells with 2different wavelengths.

Thank you.
Using the /B flag of the LoadWave operation you can tell Igor to skip columns. You do something like this:

String columnInfoStr = ""
columnInfoStr += "wave0;"
columnInfoStr += "'_skip_';"
. . .
LoadWave /J /B=columnInfoStr . . .


See the documentation for LoadWave/B for details.

August 3, 2010 at 06:47 pm - Permalink