Load text files into wave

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In a general two discrete column, using load general text Igor is able to load the file in to distinct wave.
But i have a time series text file, how can I load them into its component.
This is my text file, I just wanted to have one column as wavelength and other as absorbent.
How do i do that?

thank you. Acceptor.txt (75.45 KB)
If (and it is a big if) I understand what you want and how your data is arranged, here is one way (there may be a better way.)


Load your file as delimited text. You'll get a bunch of waves such as Wavelength_nm_, RawData_001____, etc.

Then execute:
Concatenate/O/KILL WaveList("RawData*",";",""), outW
MatrixTranspose outW
Redimension/N=(DimSize(outW,0)*DimSize(outW,1)) outW
SetScale/P x, 300e-9,0.5e-9/20,"m",outW
Display outW


I came up with the scaling by inspection of the Wavelength_nm_ wave.

You don't need a wavelength waves.

July 17, 2009 at 01:55 pm - Permalink