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Re: streaming into Excel? [message #67378 is a reply to message #67377]

Tue, 28 July 2009 13:39

Barbara
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Registered: July 2009

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On Jul 28, 12:04 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Barbara writes:
>> To analyze data, my professor would like me to be able to take data
>> from an array and be able to have it show up in Excel. I know I can
>> print the array to get all the numbers, and can copy and paste it into
>> Excel, but that seems too tedious. Is there a way to stream the
>> information to excel?
>
> If you are using IDL 7.1, you can use WRITE_CSV to
> write a comma separated value file that can be opened
> in Excel.
>
> If you are using a version of IDL earlier than that,
> you can try WRITE_SYLK, which will do something similar.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

ok I've been looking at the code for write_csv, and i don't understand
how to use it. could you possibly show me an example? I'm trying to
open a file, master_summed (its a sum of the lines in my master flat).
How would I enter this into the command line?

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		Re: streaming into Excel? By: cgguido on Tue, 28 July 2009 20:32
		Re: streaming into Excel? By: David Fanning on Tue, 28 July 2009 13:54
		Re: streaming into Excel? By: Barbara on Tue, 28 July 2009 13:39
		Re: streaming into Excel? By: David Fanning on Tue, 28 July 2009 12:04

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