Creating N number of waves

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I'm trying to make a procedure that automates the following process and I got stuck.
I have waves that have a multiple of 1024 points (1024 x N points).
I'm trying to decompose these waves into N number of waves, each with 1024 points, whose names are wave_N.
I know how to decompose waves having 1024 points each, but I'm not sure how to make N number of waves depending on the number of points I have in the starting wave (1024 x N points).
Does anyone know how you would make N number of waves in this case?
Thank you.
Here is a solution:
// NOTE: Output waves are overwritten if they already exist.
// Example:
//  Make /O /N=10 testInputWave = p
//  Edit testInputWave
//  DecomposeNumeric1DWave(testInputWave, 3, "output")
//  AppendToTable output0, output1, output2, output3
Function DecomposeNumeric1DWave(w, pointsPerOutputWave, baseName)
    Wave w                          // A 1D wave
    Variable pointsPerOutputWave    // e.g., 1024
    String baseName             // e.g., "wave" to get wave0, wave1, . . .
    
    Variable numInputPoints = numpnts(w)
    if (numInputPoints == 0)
        return 0
    endif
    
    Variable numOutputWaves = ceil(numInputPoints / pointsPerOutputWave)
    
    Variable startPoint=0, endPoint
    
    Variable i
    for(i=0; i<numOutputWaves; i+=1)
        String outputName
        sprintf outputName, "%s%d", baseName, i // wave0, wave1
        endPoint = startPoint + pointsPerOutputWave - 1
        endPoint = min(endPoint, numInputPoints-1)
        Duplicate /O /R=[startPoint, endPoint] w, $outputName
        startPoint = endPoint + 1
    endfor
 
    return 0
End

May 11, 2012 at 03:45 pm - Permalink