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waveform object as function argument

Steve Mikes
Steve Mikes over 13 years ago

Does anyone know why this is happening? wave is a parametric waveform.

 procedure( printWave(wave)

   plot(wave) ; this works fine

   plot( value(wave "param1" value1) )  ;this does not work, it says the argument is not a waveform

)

 

If I do the latter statement outside of the procedure, it works fine. Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

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  • Steve Mikes
    Steve Mikes over 13 years ago

     After some more searching I discovered the famMap function which goes through the family of waves recursively. My function now looks like this:

     procedure( printWave(wave)
        cond(
            (drIsWaveform(wave)
                foreach(val sweepVarValues( car(sweepNames(wave)) )
                    printf("%-10g%-10g\n" val value(wave val) )
                ); foreach
            )
            (famIsFamily(wave)
                famMap( 'printWave wave)
            )
            (t
                error("printWave - can't handle %L\n" wave)
            )
        ); cond
    ); procedure printWave 

     

    My question now is this: When I'm in the single wave case, how do I know what the other sweep parameter values are? My ultimate goal is just to print out the family of curves like this:

     

    param1   param2  param3    measurement

     p1val1      p2val1     p3val1         mval1

     p1val1      p2val1     p3val2         mval2

     p1val1      p2val2     p3val1        mval3

     

    and so on. What's the best way to do this? Thanks.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 12 years ago

    You can use famGetSweepName(wave) to get the outer sweep name - and add an integer argument to get each nested value:

    for(dim 0 5 printf("%L\n" famGetSweepName(wave dim)))

    "p1"
    "p2"
    "p3"
    "p4"
    "dc"

    And you can use famGetSweepValues(wave) to get the outer sweep values. For example, in my case this returns (1.0 2.0). I can then do:

    nextInner=value(wave "p1" 1.0)

    and then I can do famGetSweepValues(nextInner) and so on...

    Or you could just use ocnPrint() - but maybe that's not in the format you want.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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