How to access to specific cells in vtkPolyData? - vtk

Question : Is there a way to have direct access to a specific cell in vtkPolyData structure?
I'm using vtkPolyData to store sets of lines, say L.
Currently, I'm using GetLines() to know the number of lines in L. Then, I have to use GetNextCell to go through this set of lines using a "while" loop.
Current code is something like:
vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> a;
...
vtkSmartPointer<vtkCellArray> lines = a->GetLines();
...
while(lines->GetNextCell(numberOfPoints, pointIds) != 0)
-> I'd like to be able to work directly on a specific line by doing something like:
myline = a[10];
doSomething(myline);

you could get an access to a specific cell using vtkDataSet::GetCell(vtkIdType cellId) function

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how do I get rid of leading/trailing spaces in SAS search terms?

I have had to look up hundreds (if not thousands) of free-text answers on google, making notes in Excel along the way and inserting SAS-code around the answers as a last step.
The output looks like this:
This output contains an unnecessary number of blank spaces, which seems to confuse SAS's search to the point where the observations can't be properly located.
It works if I manually erase superflous spaces, but that will probably take hours. Is there an automated fix for this, either in SAS or in excel?
I tried using the STRIP-function, to no avail:
else if R_res_ort_txt=strip(" arild ") and R_kom_lan=strip(" skåne ") then R_kommun=strip(" Höganäs " );
If you want to generate a string like:
if R_res_ort_txt="arild" and R_kom_lan="skåne" then R_kommun="Höganäs";
from three variables, let's call them A B C, then just use code like:
string=catx(' ','if R_res_ort_txt=',quote(trim(A))
,'and R_kom_lan=',quote(trim(B))
,'then R_kommun=',quote(trim(C)),';') ;
Or if you are just writing that string to a file just use this PUT statement syntax.
put 'if R_res_ort_txt=' A :$quote. 'and R_kom_lan=' B :$quote.
'then R_kommun=' C :$quote. ';' ;
A saner solution would be to continue using the free-text answers as data and perform your matching criteria for transformations with a left join.
proc import out=answers datafile='my-free-text-answers.xlsx';
data have;
attrib R_res_ort_txt R_kom_lan length=$100;
input R_res_ort_txt ...;
datalines4;
... whatever all those transforms will be performed on...
;;;;
proc sql;
create table want as
select
have.* ,
answers.R_kommun_answer as R_kommun
from
have
left join
answers
on
have.R_res_ort_txt = answers.res_ort_answer
& have.R_kom_lan = abswers.kom_lan_answer
;
I solved this by adding quotes in excel using the flash fill function:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE65QeDoepc

Lua: Parsing and Manipulating Input with Loops - Looking for Guidance

I am currently attempting to parse data that is sent from an outside source serially. An example is as such:
DATA|0|4|7x5|1|25|174-24|7x5|1|17|TERW|7x5|1|9|08MN|7x5|1|1|_
This data can come in many different lengths, but the first few pieces are all the same. Each "piece" originally comes in with CRLF after, so I've replaced them with string.gsub(input,"\r\n","|") so that is why my input looks the way it does.
The part I would like to parse is:
4|7x5|1|25|174-24|7x5|1|17|TERW|7x5|1|9|08MN|7x5|1|1|_
The "4" tells me that there will be four lines total to create this file. I'm using this as a means to set the amount of passes in the loop.
The 7x5 is the font height.
The 1 is the xpos.
The 25 is the ypos.
The variable data (172-24 in this case) is the text at these parameters.
As you can see, it should continue to loop this pattern throughout the input string received. Now the "4" can actually be any variable > 0; with each number equaling a set of four variables to capture.
Here is what I have so far. Please excuse the loop variable, start variable, and print commands. I'm using Linux to run this function to try to troubleshoot.
function loop_input(input)
var = tonumber(string.match(val, "DATA|0|(%d*).*"))
loop = string.match(val, "DATA|0|")
start = string.match(val, loop.."(%d*)|.*")
for obj = 1, var do
for i = 1, 4 do
if i == 1 then
i = "font" -- want the first group to be set to font
elseif i == 2 then
i = "xpos" -- want the second group to be set to xpos
elseif i == 3 then
i = "ypos" -- want the third group to be set to ypos
else
i = "txt" -- want the fourth group to be set to text
end
obj = font..xpos..ypos..txt
--print (i)
end
objects = objects..obj -- concatenate newly created obj variables with each pass
end
end
val = "DATA|0|4|7x5|1|25|174-24|7x5|1|17|TERW|7x5|1|9|08MN|7x5|1|1|_"
print(loop_input(val))
Ideally, I want to create a loop that, depending on the var variable, will plug in the captured variables between the pipe deliminators and then I can use them freely as I wish. When trying to troubleshoot with parenthesis around my four variables (like I have above), I receive the full list of four variables four times in a row. Now I'm having difficulty actually cycling through the input string and actually grabbing them out as the loop moves down the data string. I was thinking that using the pipes as a means to delineate variables from one another would help. Am I wrong? If it doesn't matter and I can keep the [/r/n]+ instead of each "|" then I am definitely all for that.
I've searched around and found some threads that I thought would help but I'm not sure if tables or splitting the inputs would be advisable. Like these threads:
Setting a variable in a for loop (with temporary variable) Lua
How do I make a dynamic variable name in Lua?
Most efficient way to parse a file in Lua
I'm fairly new to programming and trying to teach myself. So please excuse my beginner thread. I have both the "Lua Reference Manual" and "Programming in Lua" books in paperback which is how I've tried to mock my function(s) off of. But I'm having a problem making the connection.
I thank you all for any input or guidance you can offer!
Cheers.
Try this:
val = "DATA|0|4|7x5|1|25|174-24|7x5|1|17|TERW|7x5|1|9|08MN|7x5|1|1|_"
val = val .. "|"
data = val:match("DATA|0|%d+|(.*)$")
for fh,xpos,ypos,text in data:gmatch("(.-)|(.-)|(.-)|(.-)|") do
print(fh,xpos,ypos,text)
end

Storing Matlab data and strings in a tabulated file

I am creating a program which opens an image, and uses the MATLAB ginput command to store x and y coordinates, which are operated on in the loop to fulfill requirements of an if statement and output a number or string corresponding to the region clicked during the ginput session. At the same time, I am using the input command to input a string from the command window relating to these numbers. The ginput session is placed in a while loop so a click in a specific area will end the input session. For each session (while loop), only one or two inputs from the command window are needed. Finally, I am trying to store all the data in a csv or txt file, but I would like it to be tabulated so it is easy to read, i.e. rows and columns with headers. I am including some sample code. My questions are: 1, how can an input of x and y coordinates be translated to a string? It is simple to do this for a number, but I cannot get it to work with a string. 2, any help on printing the strings and number to a tabulated text or cdv file would be appreciated.
Command line input:
prompt='Batter:';
Batter=input(prompt,'s');
While Loop:
count=1;
flag=0;
while(flag==0)
[x,y]= ginput(1);
if (y>539)
flag=1;
end
if x<594 && x>150 && y<539 && y>104
%it's in the square
X=x;
Y=y;
end
if x<524 && x>207 && y<480 && y>163
result='strike'
else
result='ball'
end
[x,y]= ginput(1);
pitch=0;
if x<136 && x>13
%its' pitch column
if y<539
pitch=6;
end
if y<465
pitch=5;
end
if y<390
pitch=4;
end
if y<319
pitch=3;
end
if y<249
pitch=2;
end
if y<175
pitch=1;
end
end
if pitch==0
else
plot(X,Y,'o','MarkerFaceColor',colors(pitch),'MarkerSize',25);
text(X,Y,mat2str(count));
end
count=count+1
M(count,:)=[X,Y,pitch];
end
For the above series of if statements, I would prefer a string output rather than the numbers 1-6 if the condition is satisfied.
The fprintf function is used to print to a file, but I have issues combining the strings and numbers using it:
fileID = fopen('pitches.csv','w');
fid = fopen('gamedata.txt','w');
fmtString = [repmat('%s\t',1,size(Batter,2)-1),'%s\n'];
fprintf(fid,fmtString,Batter,result);
fclose(fid);
for i=1:length(M)
fprintf(fileID,'%6.2f %6.2f %d\n',M(i,1),M(i,2),M(i,3));
end
fclose(fileID);
I have tried adding the string handles to the fprintf command along with the columns of M, but get errors. I either need to store them in an array (How?) and print all the array columns to the file, or use some other method. I also tried a version of the writetable method:
writetable(T,'tabledata2.txt','Delimiter','\t','WriteRowNames',true)
but I can't get everything to work right. Thanks very much for any help.
Let's tackle your questions one at a time:
1, how can an input of x and y coordinates be translated to a string?
You can use the sprintf command in MATLAB. This takes exactly the same syntax as fprintf, but the output of this function will give you a string / character array of whatever you desire.
2, any help on printing the strings and number to a tabulated text or cdv file would be appreciated.
You can still use fprintf but you can specify a matrix as the input. As such, you can do this:
fprintf(fileID,'%6.2f %6.2f %d\n', M.');
This will write the entire matrix to file. However, care must be taken here because MATLAB writes to files in column major format. This means that it will traverse along the rows before going to the next column. If you want to write data row by row, you will need to transpose the matrix first so that when you are traversing down the rows, it will basically do what you want. You will need to keep this in mind before you start trying to write strings to an file. What I would recommend is that you place each string in a cell array, then loop through each element in the cell array and write each string individually line by line.
Hopefully this helps push you in the right direction. Reply back to me in a comment and we can keep talking if you need more help.

Using load with data from cells

In my code I'm trying to use load with entries from a cell, but it is not working. The portion of my code below produces a 3 dimensional array of strings. The strings represent the paths to file names.
for i = 1:Something
for j = 1:Something Different
for k = 1: Yet Something Something Different
DataPath{j,k,i} = 'F:\blah\blah\blah\fileijk %file changes based on i,j,and k
end
end
end
In the next part of the code I want to use load to open the files using the path names defined in the code above. I do this using the code below.
Dummy = DataPath{l,(k-1)*TSRRange+m};
Data = load(Dummy);
The idea is for Dummy to take the string content out of DataPath so I can use it in load. By doing this I thought that Dummy would be defined as a string and not a cell, but this is not the case. How do I pull the string out of DataPath so I can use it with load? Thanks.
I have to load the data this way because the data is located in multiple folders. I can post more of the code if needed, but it is complex.
Dummy is a cell because you assigned a 3D cell array but are accessing a 2D cell with Dummy = Datapath{1,(k-1)*TSRRange+m}
I don't believe that you can expect to access all cell elements I this way. Instead, use three indices just as you did when creating it.

Loop with matrices created with assign function in R project

I created several matrices with the assign function as follows:
for (i in 2:105) { # Loop for creating and filling matrices
(assign(paste("m",i,sep=""),Datos[(x[i-1]+1):x[i],1:14]))
}
This give me several matrices... from m2 to m105... which is exactly what i wanted because i can extract and call this matrices with their index like m2[i,j] or m65[i,j] etc.
My problem is that I want to make a loop which include all my "m" matrices, but I don't know what could be the right code to do so because I need something like:
paste("m",i,"[i,j]",sep="") to return m2[i,j]...m3[i,j] ...... m105[i,j] and do the loop over this , but clearly the paste function returns a string and don't recognize m2.... m105 like matrices..... it returns m2[i,j] as text.
What should I do ?
Thank you very much !
regards
You have to use get:
get(paste("m", i, sep=""))[i,j]

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