FCS Files: JMP opens them, but where does the header information go?I am helping a colleague with some work with FCS files. JMP opens the data easy enough, which is great, but I am looking to extract the header information, and I can't figure out an easy way - especially if I wanted to do this for a bunch of files.
I don't get any options like I do for CSV files, so the only solution I have found is to change the extension to .txt and open the file with text preferences. That works, but would seem troublesome if I need to do this to all files prior to opening.
1) is there a way to open a single FCS file to see the header w/o changing the extension
2) can you use a script and force-use text preferences even if the extension isn't a standard text extension.
Thanks!
Data TableOtherScriptingRe: FCS Files: JMP opens them, but where does the header information go?When JMP opens an FCS file it places the header information as table variables.
You can interrogate the table to get the list of names (dt<
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Re: FCS Files: JMP opens them, but where does the header information go?@David_Burnham, That would be awesome! ... but I am not seeing that. I am on JMP 15.2.1 on Windows 10.
Re: FCS Files: JMP opens them, but where does the header information go?One option you might want to try is using the function LoadTextFile, this will at least give you visibility to the header data (although can be slow because FCS files contain large blocks of binary data):
fcsFile = "c:\my-fcs-file.fcs";
str = loadtextfile(fcsFile);
// extract header
pat = "FCS" + PatArb()>>hdr + "$BEGINANALYSIS";
isMatch = PatMatch(str,pat);
if (isMatch,
show(hdr)
,
show("oops")
);
Re: FCS Files: JMP opens them, but where does the header information go?I will give that a try ... Opening the file in a text editor the header has a lot of information (apparently such that JMP isn't pulling it out as header information).
Maybe this will give me a hand understanding why...
Thanks!
