Creating waves in a loop

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Trivial problem:
why does:

wave w = $(baseName + num2istr(index))
successfully retrieve a wave into w but the inverse:
Duplicate/O $(baseName + num2istr(index)), test

returns the error "expected wave name" when these lines are in the same loop?

I am trying to do the most trivial thing: Duplicate a series of waves retrieved in a loop so that I can do manipulations on them without changing the original waves. How can one do this without typing RecordA0, RecordA1, etc. in?
Thanks!

(Igor 5.04B)
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Must be more to the story. The following works fine (Igor 6.12 but should be the same in 5.)
Function test()
    Make/O $"jack0"
   
    String baseName="jack"
    Variable index=0
   
    Duplicate/O $(baseName+num2istr(index)), junk
end



Try setting a breakpoint and verify the baseName and index values are really the same in both cases.

November 13, 2009 at 03:26 pm - Permalink