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Merge Experiment Without Loading Procedure File

Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:02 pm

I've just discovered the MERGEEXPERIMENT queue operation. It will be a great addition now to the SnapIt package --- THANKS!!!!

Could it be modified so as to have a method to merge without also loading the experiment procedure file, for example ...

// merge without including procedure file from experiment
Execute/P MERGEEXPERIMENT/Q filename

This will save the hassle of having to clean up the procedure file after loading a few dozen snap shot experiments in to one.

Thanks again!

hrodstein

I will add this to the wish list.

June 21, 2011 at 12:22 pm - Permalink

jjweimer

Thanks. Actually, with further use of this, my wish now is ...

 // print to history, include procedures (default as current)
MERGEEXPERIMENT
 // do not print to history (quiet), include procedures
MERGEEXPERIMENT/Q
// print to history, do not include procedures
MERGEEXPERIMENT/P
// do not print to history, do not include procedures 
MERGEEXPERIMENT/Q/P

The "P" flag could also be something else (perhaps Z or N or ...) that more intuitively means "do not" (because the presence of "P" seems rather to imply to include procedures rather than not do include them -- or, you could break with backward compatibility in this case and have the default be _NOT_ to include procedures with a "P" flag required to mean to include them).

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J. J. Weimer
Chemistry / Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAHuntsville

June 22, 2011 at 09:33 am - Permalink