Option for SaveAscii to exclude header

[Martyn Gigg]

From R. Dalgliesh

This is a very minor change request and not urgent.
Can a new option be added to the end of the SaveAscii routine to disable the column captions.
i.e. no header.
 
Thanks
 
Rob

[Karl Palmen]

I take this to mean the addition of a property to the algorithm,

11 | ColumnHeaders | Input | Boolean | True | If true, put column headers into file.

[Karl Palmen]

It seems that LoadAscii should also be able to read such a file without column headers.

[Karl Palmen]

The unit test is LoadSaveAsciiTest. It creates a file from a workspace created by the test. This should be a scoped file. When I modify the test for this ticket, I can also modify to use scoped files. I'll modify to create two files one with headers (by default) and one without and check that both are read correctly.

[Karl Palmen]

LoadAscii can read a file from which the column headers have been removed, so does not need modifying.

[Karl Palmen]

The change to the unit test described above would not test this ticket, because LoadAscii would read the file regradless of whether it had a header and ignores the content of the header. A unit test that checks the content of the saved file independently of LoadAscii is needed hence ticket #6243.

[Karl Palmen]

Make necessary change to code algorithm re #6107

Signed-off-by: Karl Palmen <karl.palmen@…>

Changeset: f9cca0a11a894ac4b2f81e5a7fbec97ba219448c

[Karl Palmen]

To test load a workspace, run SaveAscii on it selecting a narrow range of spectra. Inspect saved file see it has column headers. Run SaveAsccii again check that there is a ColumnHeader checkbox already ticked. Untick it change output file name and execute. Check that second file is the same as first, but with no column headers.

[Karl Palmen]

I've found out that as similar change was made to SaveFocusedXYE in ticket #1143 . It is not tested in SaveFocussedXYETest.

[Karl Palmen]

Make necessary change to code algorithm re #6107

Signed-off-by: Karl Palmen <karl.palmen@…>

Changeset: f9cca0a11a894ac4b2f81e5a7fbec97ba219448c

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​6953