HANDLING FILES
iKon-L SECTION 7
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ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common format for text files in
computers and on the Internet. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented
with a 7-bit binary number. 128 possible characters are defined.
Exporting Data as ASCII text means you can subsequently import your data into other applications (such as
spreadsheets) that use the ASCII format.
After you have selected ASCII XY (*.asc) from the Save as type drop-down menu, allocated a filename and
clicked Save, the Save data as dialog box appears, e.g.:
• The radio buttons on the left allow you to choose whether you want to save the Signal, Background or
Reference data from the live data set.
• The radio buttons on the right allow you to choose a character that will serve as a Separator between
the numeric values in your raw data.
You can then configure the importing application to recognize this separator (or delimiter) and in the case of a
spreadsheet, display the data in a suitable configuration of rows and columns. In an application such as
Microsoft Excel you can perform this configuration by means of a wizard, launched automatically as you import
the ASCII file.
Exporting data as ASCII text causes all the data associated with the data set to be exported, not just the portion
of the data that is currently being displayed. Data which have been acquired through Single track or Full
Vertical Binning will typically be displayed on a spreadsheet as a single column. Data from acquisitions
involving Multi-Track, Imaging
or
Kinetic Series are normally displayed in rows and columns. The columns
represent the height (and/or the member of the kinetic series) and the rows the width of the CCD-chip.
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