Said, Plotter tries to detect a number of numerical formats on its own. For that purposes it uses a predeclared set of possible delimiters and possible decimal separators. And it uses the presence of a delimiter/separator as well as the absence of a delimiter/separator to do its job. In your case the absence of anything that smells like a decimal seperator makes Plotter believe it is an integer to convert and the integer conversion routine fails due to the "E".
Simple exchange "* u" with".0E-06" and Plotter will understand it. I know this (terrible) Agilent notation of the 53131/2 very well. The microcontroller of my GPSDO generates serial messages of that kind on a second to second basis and also the time interval statistics on a 100 second interval basis to mimic the existence of a HP53132 so that my GPSDO can be used in conjunction with the TAC32+ version (external TIC version) for long time analysis without even owning the Agilent counter. Best regards Ulrich > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 17:13 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [time-nuts] Plotting csv files > > > Hi Martyn, Ulrich, > > the Plotter utility works really nicely for CSV data. > > Ulrich, one question: how can I get plotter to interpret > scientific notation > such as 100E-06 etc correctly? > > I get data from my 53132A's serial port that looks like this: > > 5* u > 10* u > > "10* u" means 100E-06 (the star means not a significant > digit, the u means > Micro). > > I format this with Wordpad (auto-replace "* u" with 0E-06) > and the data can > be used by Excel that way. > > But plotter does not seem to recognize "-100E-06" correctly. > > How can I make this work? > > thanks, > Said > > > In a message dated 5/8/2008 21:29:05 Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Martyn, > > you may consider this: > > http://www.ulrich-bangert.de/plotter.zip > > Best regards > Ulrich Bangert > > > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Martyn Smith > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008 10:54 > > An: [email protected] > > Betreff: [?? Probable Spam] [time-nuts] Plotting csv files > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > I have an ongoing problem and realized why don't I ask the time > > nuts!! > > > > My frequency and temperature data is usually plotted in a > > comma separator value (csv) file. > > > > I use excel to import and plot the results. > > > > Excel only lets me plot 32000 points at a time. I often have > > over a million samples. > > > > Does anyone has some nice software that will easily plot a > > csv file. I do need to be able to change the vertical scale > > rather than have it autorange. > > > > It doesn't have to be free, but it has to be easy to use. > > I've never got > > the time to "learn" how to use new software. > > Said jackson kindly sent me some software, but I could never > > get it going. > > > > Best Regards > > > > Martyn > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, go to > > https://www.febo.com/cgi-> bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and > > follow the instructions there. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-> bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and > follow the instructions there. > > > > > > **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new > twists on family > favorites at AOL Food. > (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-> bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and > follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
