Hi Pedro,

you sent a very similar email with exactly the same subject on the 15th
of October, and I did my best to help you there (email from back then
below). Has my mail gotten lost in spam? Is there some further help
you'd need? Did I upset you somehow?

Best regards,
Marcus


On 16.10.2015 15:01, Marcus Müller wrote:
> Hi Pedro,
>
> that's what the file sink is for -- "sinking" data into files.
> It's not producing a text file, because text files are pretty much a
> bad format for floating point values, usually, because you'd either be
> wasting enormous amounts of storage space to save each number in a
> textual format that tries as good as possible to represent the
> floating point value, or you'd lose accuracy. Either way, converting
> the in-memory binary floats to text is CPU-intense and therefore
> usually not done, unless you really know that you need it. Even then,
> it's pretty reasonable to argue that, yes, although
> 1.148842E-3+j1.888888E-1
> 1.488875E-4+j1.000000E-3
> is human-readable, having a million of these lines (and that's how I
> read "a lot of samples" that you mention) makes the data de-facto
> unreadable, not even mentioning navigatable, without graphical aids.
>
> Most people just import there samples later on e.g. into matlab -- but
> you wouldn't want to have textual numbers then, either (Matlab and
> Octave, as much as Python/numpy, and GNUplot can read binaries like
> the files produces by file sink directly).
>
> That being said, you can actually pretty simply convert the binary
> files produced by file sink to text using python. For example, save
> the following as a text file and run it as "python
> <name_of_scriptfile> <input_samples.dat> <output_samples.txt>"
> (untested, since written for this mail only):
>
> import numpy as np
> from sys import argv
> #complex64: 32bit float real, 32bit float imag
> #float32: as name suggests
> #int16: short int
> format = np.complex64
> data = np.fromfile(argv[1], dtype=format)
> data.tofile(argv[2], sep='\n')


On 20.10.2015 20:22, Pedro Gabriel Adami wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm developing a project based in gnuradio and I have to save some
> data that I get at the end of my flowgraph. I'm using a Number Sink to
> see the value of the sum I'm making, and I need to analyse these numbers.
> Does anyone know how to storage/save this kind of information? It
> would be great if these numbers were saved in a text file (.txt).
> Anyway, now I just need to save them (no matter the way), so I can
> analyse them e take my conclusions.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Cheers,
> Pedro Gabriel Adami
> Graduando do 4º período de Engenharia de Controle e Automação no Inatel
>
>
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