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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Anti-Spam Code: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by circumvent[/i] [br]Origin Version (Select Help-->About Origin): 7.5 Operating System: Win XP Either labtalk or origin C suggestions will help. For most of the data acquired from the experiment, they contain some headers, for example, ***** *Temperature 4 K *Magnetic field 3 T Freq amp 12, 56 14, 65 ¡­¡­ Now, I am thinking of extract the header+file name information from the file. My questions are as follows: 1, How does Origin define headers when it imports the data? What¡¯s the rules that Origin change the worksheet name and column¡¯s name? When I use the command open -w %A, the worksheet name will be changed to something related to file name, and the column¡¯s name will become something related to the header. Some of the header¡¯s information will also go to the column label part. What are the rules here? 2, How to escape the first few lines when importing the data? If I know exact n lines to escape, what¡¯s the command? More generally, if I don¡¯t know the exact lines, how to justify which line is data, which line is not? 3, Sometimes ORIGIN will make wrong decision, especially when the line starts with numbers, for example 334 lines 557 Freq amp 12, 56 14, 65 ORIGIN will consider the first line as the start of the dataset and put everything into one column. How to solve these problems? Thanks for your help, Jinbo [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.