Dear Ifeffit users,
Sorry if it's an idiot question, but I'm in troubles when trying to work with my L3-Pb absorption data with Athena. I'm a beginner with the Ifeffit stuffs...
Also, sorry if this report is not correctly posted, but I will try to give you the maximum information I can...

Let's go. The data were taken at the Brazilian syncrotron laboratory, and the "important" data are in columns 3 (energy), 4 (Io) and 6 (It). The file is of the following form:

"Data"  "Hora"  "Ponto X"       "CION1(CURTA)"  "CION3(Longa)"  "CION2(Média)"  "Det.. D"        "Translonga"    "Transmédia"    "Det. G"        "Det. H"        "Det. I"
04/02/04        12:32:51        12899.99        1671379 865008  1244452 0       0.658666        -0.363712       0       0       0
04/02/04        12:32:54        12901.16        1668799 863916  1242264 0       0.658384        -0.363215       0       0       0
04/02/04        12:32:57        12904.32        1661863 860550  1237862 0       0.658123        -0.363569       0       0       0
04/02/04        12:33:00        12905.99        1660709 860007  1237669 0       0.658059        -0.364045       0       0       0
04/02/04        12:33:03        12907.65        1656852 858657  1236381 0       0.657305        -0.364574       0       0       0
04/02/04        12:33:05        12909.82        1655818 858151  1236604 0       0.657270        -0.365344       0       0       0
04/02/04        12:33:08        12912.15        1655627 857952  1236890 0       0.657387        -0.365807       0       0       0
04/02/04        12:33:11        12913.82        1655763 858599  1238443 0       0.656715        -0.366308       0       0       0

When I try to open it, with the latest version (ifeffit-1.2.6) installed in a Windows XP computes, Athena says that the file has fewer than 10 data points.

And the following message was trapped by Athena:

Athena0.8.030warnC:\Arquivos de programas\Ifeffit\horae\stash\ATHENA.TRAPCODE(0x 3be700c) at athena line 1349
        main::__ANON__('Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ath...') called at athena line 3658
        main::read_raw('D:/meus documentos/LNLS/D04B-XAS 1832-03/data/B040006.DAT', '', undef, 'SCALAR(0x3a80b78)') called at athena line 3516
        main::read_file(0) called at /PerlApp/Tk.pm line 340
        eval {...} called at /PerlApp/Tk.pm line 340
        Tk::MainLoop() called at athena line 1411

The files in the /examples/Athena folder open correctly.

Do I need to "clean" the data, leaving only the desired columns, E, Io and It?

Again, sorry if it's a dumb question and if the report is incomplete...

Thank you in advance

Mauricio

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       Maurício Antonio Pereira da Silva
                Departamento de Física
           Grupo de Dinâmica Molecular
Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar
Via Washington Luiz, km 235 Vila Monjolinho
        13565-905 São Carlos - SP   Brasil

         Tel: +55 (16) 33 51 82 22, ramal 262
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