WDF-EXPORT(1)

💖 WDF-EXPORT(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Commands section of the manual — this one's all about wdf-export, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

wdf-export — literally just wdf-export, that's the whole name, slay 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe:

usage: wdf-export [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-f FORMAT] [-p PRECISION] wdf_file

it's a simple script that converts Renishaw wdf spectroscopy files into plain text files. no cap, that's it, that's the whole job 🎀

the first 3 lines in the header are, in order:

1. brief information of measurement 📋
2. positions of spectra points, if exist 📍
3. wavenumber and indices of points 🌊

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🫶 positional arguments 🫶

• wdf_file — the Renishaw wdf you're feeding in as input. give her the file, bestie 🍓

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👑 options 👑

• -h, --help — shows this help message and exits. the classic "wait what do I do" button, we've all been there 🙈
• -o, --output OUTPUT — the name of the exported plain text file. if you don't specify one, it just uses the base name of the .wdf file. lazy girl coding, honestly iconic ⭐
• -f, --format FORMAT — the format of the exported file. the valid values are:
  • .csv — comma-separated 🍓
  • .txt — space-separated ✨

if you don't specify it, it guesses from the output file name.

⚠️ Note: the -f option is ignored when the output file name already has an extension. so don't come crying to me when your format flag does nothing, she said what she said 💀

• -p, --precision PRECISION — the precision of the exported data. use a printf-compatible format such as %2.4f. numbers girlies, this one's for you 🔥

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that's the whole page, bestie!! go forth and convert your spectra 💜

🦋 sign-off time: this was wdf-export 0.1.16, from March 2025. mwah, take care of her 🌈💖

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