On Friday, Jan 9, 2004, at 02:43 America/New_York, Torsten Hofmann
wrote:
Sharon Gibson wrote:
Seems as though you should just import your data as two fields, since
none of
the 6 components appear to be shared. There's probably not any memory
savings
in the 1-field approach, and you wouldn't have to do any of the
Replace
I'm not trying to save memory.
I'm generating the data in a program of my own and writing it out in
native opendx format. I thought it's much more convenient to write all
the results into one 'big' file and then selecting the stuff in opendx
instead of having to maintain several output files in my external
program. But it looks like that assumption was wrong.
Or am I overlooking something?
YES. Groups. Sharon is right. I couldn't figure out why you were making
it so difficult for yourself either. (:-)
Make a Group of 2 or more Fields. Each Field then has all the right
attributes in all the right places.
When you Import the single Group file, use Select(s) to get the desired
Fields.
tinkering (which can be tricky when working with attributes, as well
as with
invalid positions, etc.)
Yes, the problems arise when dealing with attributes like 'ref' or
'dep' as you have to set them manually (in a three step process as I
described earlier, see below).
Torsten
