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Dear all,

Is there any way to convert the sdds format to ASCII format? Thanks.

Chinchi

Chinchi,

Yes, there are several ways to do this.

One way is using sddsprintout, e.g.,
% sddsprintout -spreadsheet=csv -column=* <input> <output>
This will make a CSV file from all the columns in <input>. Be warned however that the order of the output columns is not guaranteed, however, unless you individually specify the columns on the commandline with separate -column options.

Another way is using sdds2plaindata. It is a little more flexible than using sddsprintout. For example, it can output the data in column-major order instead of row-major order. It will also output data into flat binary files.

Having said all that, it is worth learning the SDDS toolkit instead of converting all the data to ASCII. A lot of the power of elegant comes from the ability to write SDDS-based scripts to perform automatic data processing.

--Michael