[Ifeffit] sorting files in Athena

[Zajac, Dariusz]

Dear Dave,
that's good idea - but then you have to ask every beamline owner to
change the file names, at each synchrotron... and it will not help if
you want to sort groups later ;)
the  another problem is with the length of files, can you imagine the
file name such as myfilename_elem_edge_temp_date_XXXXXrXXX.dat or
longer?  ;)
greetings
darek

BTW I am a "beamline owner"


>-----Original Message-----
>From: ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov 
>[mailto:ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf 
>Of Barton, David (DG)
>Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:21 PM
>To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit
>Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] sorting files in Athena
>
>
>Dariusz,
>
>One other reasonable solution to this problem is to request 
>that your beamline owner change their file naming scheme to 
>truly name the file something like "scan_0001rXXX, where the 
>XXX is the scan number and it is padded with zeros... Such as: 
>scan_0001r001.dat, then all problems with lexigraphical 
>ordering in Windows and other platforms is solved because 
>scan_0001r001.dat will then be listed before scan_0001r010.dat 
>in the file list.  As a result, programs that import lists of 
>files (not just Athena) will then be able to handle multiple 
>files in the manner that you expect.
>
>Dave
>
>
>  _________________________________ 
>  David Barton
>  The Dow Chemical Company 
>  Catalysis R&D 
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov
>[mailto:ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf 
>Of Dominik Samuelis
>Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 5:52 AM
>To: ifeffit at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov
>Subject: [Ifeffit] sorting files in Athena
>
>Hi Dariusz,
>
>> I use Iffefit under Win XP, and every time when I open (import) more 
>> files I have them in such order: 1, 11, 12, 13, ... , 19, 2, 20, 21,
>22,
>> ... , 29, 3, 30, 31 ... etc.
>> So, my question is if there is some "hidden" way to sort 
>automatically 
>> files during importing or in the menue. Do you know something about?
>Is
>> the sorting lexigraphical (from Windows)?
>
>this is a typical problem with the Windows file selection dialog. 
>Windows always puts the file, which is currently selected, at 
>the first 
>position of the files list. Now, when you're shift-clicking on 
>your last
>
>file, you automatically select this one. That's why file 31 is 
>in first 
>position.
>
>The easiest workaround for this issue is to select your files 
>backwards,
>
>i.e. first click on file 31, then shift-click on file 1.
>
>Now, with HASYLAB files, it gets a little more complicated, due to 
>filenames like scan_00001rxx, where xx is the scan number during a 
>QEXAFS scan. I usually just open them in two chunks, one with 
>xx=1-9 and
>
>then xx=10-99. This way, you can use the lexical sorting of Windows.
>
>Cheers,
>dominik
>-- 
>Dipl.-Ing. Dominik Samuelis
>samuelis at pc.rwth-aachen.de
>Physikalische Chemie I
>RWTH Aachen University
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