Histogram from a text file

ROOT
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I would like to use this code on another textfile that contain negative. Is it possible? When I did it all the negative values were plotted as zeros. Thanks Chloe.

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That’s odd, it works for me fine. Could you please send me a piece of your text file with negative values?

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{
  TTree *MyTree = new TTree("MyTree", "MyTree");
  MyTree->ReadFile("MyData.txt", "Angle:Energy");
  MyTree->SetEstimate(MyTree->GetEntries()); // not strictly necessary
  TH2F *MyHisto = new TH2F("MyHisto", ";Polar scattering angle [degrees];Energy [keV]", 100, MyTree->GetMinimum("Angle") - 1, MyTree->GetMaximum("Angle") + 1, 100, MyTree->GetMinimum("Energy") - 1, MyTree->GetMaximum("Energy") + 1);
  MyTree->Project("MyHisto", "Energy:Angle");
  MyHisto->Draw("colz");
}
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It’s fine now. The problem was the textfile. There was a character on one of the lines that should be there!!

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Hi Yus,

I tried to work with the your ROOT macro but it doesn’t work , it shows me an error : variable length array declaration not allowed at file scope !

What should i do ?

Thanks

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I believe you simply need to change lines 47 and 48 to the following:

float *x = new float[numL];
float *y = new float[numL];

Note: I have not tested this.

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Hello Smith,

I tried but this is happened : warning: ISO C++11 does not allow conversion from string literal to ‘char *’

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Try this on line 24

const char * filename = "testfile.txt";
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I tried but this happened again :confused:
2017-04-11 15:42:40.834 root.exe[2155:59829] Fatal error: requested non-existing drawable 154
2017-04-11 15:42:40.834 root.exe[2155:59829] This window not found among allocated/deleted drawables

Thanks for your attempts to help me

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I’m not sure, it appeared to work for me with an empty text file. Can you post your text file?

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MyData.txt (45 Bytes)

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Result using your data (I changed the marker style to be easier to see.):

MyData.png698×475 9.12 KB

Looks like there may be some issue on your end. I used ROOT 6.08/06.

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i have root_v6.09.02, i will test your version and see … hope it will work

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Send me your ROOT macro which you have tested with !

Thanks

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It is the same as above with the modifications we discussed:
hist2Dfromfilev03.c (2.4 KB)

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it doesn’t work :confused:
i have to change the root version i think

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Hi,
I am trying to use your code but keep getting the error below. Any help pls.

root [0] .L histo.cpp
/home/munirat/MCA/./histo.cpp:25:20: warning: ISO C++11 does not allow
      conversion from string literal to 'char *' [-Wwritable-strings]
        char * filename = "b.txt";
                          ^
/home/munirat/MCA/./histo.cpp:48:8: error: variable length array declaration not
      allowed at file scope
        float x[numL];
              ^ ~~~~
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Did you read the discussion toward the bottom of the thread? These issues were discussed and solved:

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Hi,
I followed your correction which clear the error and show something like this but i cant see the plooted values

hist
hist.jpg1366×768 249 KB

Thanks

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What are the numbers you are plotting? Could you attach your final code (histo.cpp) and your data file?