On Tuesday 19 September 2006 00:30, Victor.Streltsov@csiro.au wrote:

I have the following Artemis problem:

when I export variables to text file and then read them back into new Artemis run/project (import variables from the text file), Artemis cuts parts of the expressions starting from multiplication sign '*'.

I tried different text editors and character coding as well as different platforms (Windows XP, Linux FC4).

It always does the same thing with imported math expressions. It doesn't like '*' character. I am puzzled.

I would appreciate your help and any suggestions.

Victor, That's what they call a bug -- and it's all my fault. I'll fix it in the next release. On you windows machine, there's no work-around. If you want to be adventurous on your linux machine, you can actually alter the source code. Open the source code file `artemis.pl' in a text editor and search for the subroutine "gds2_import_text". Change this: $val =~ s/[!%#*].*$//; # ease puts end-of-line comments on # guess lines to $val =~ s/[!%#].*$//; # ease puts end-of-line comments on # guess lines (that is, remove the first asterix). That'll fix your problem with very little possibility of a side effect. And, as I said, it'll be fixed in the next release. B -- Bruce Ravel ---------------------------------------------- bravel@anl.gov Molecular Environmental Science Group, Building 203, Room E-165 MRCAT, Sector 10, Advanced Photon Source, Building 433, Room B007 Argonne National Laboratory phone and voice mail: (1) 630 252 5033 Argonne IL 60439, USA fax: (1) 630 252 9793 My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/