Values of data plotted

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Hi everyone! I need help!
I can visualise “output.root” file structure by use of TBrowser and see related diagrams-such as energy spectrum in my simulation- by double click on the related tree.
How can I extract the values of data plotted in a graph to a .txt. file.

Sincerely,
Pat

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Your question is a bit vague. And depending on the kind of objects in your root file the answer may vary. What are these object you are looking at ? TH1 ? TH2 ? TTrree ? TGraph ? …

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The only way that comes to my mind right now is iterating over all tree entries and streaming your wanted variables into txt file one by one. I assume that you have a TTree object with variables.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

ofstream myfile;
myfile.open ("example.txt");

TFile * inputfile = new TFile::Open( "DIRECTORY");
TTree * yourtree = (TTree*) inputfile->Get("TREENAME");
double Energy; // EDIT:you may actually want to change double to float because that is usually the branch type
yourtree->SetBranchAddress("EnergyBranchName", &Energy);
for (int i=0;i<yourtree->GetEntries();++i)
{
yourtree->GetEntry(i);
myfile << std::to_string(Energy)+"\n";
}
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Dear Couet,
Thanks for your attention.
I am a new user.
For example, it is possible to me to extract the values of data plotted in Canvas_1, see attach image, to a .txt. file.

Screenshot from 2017-05-11 12:26:23.png1400×1050 143 KB

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Dear mwojtas,
Thanks.
I am a new user.
I attached image of my root file in the previous reply.
I have some question about your code;
What is “EnergyBranchName” or “Energy” terns in your code?
Is “TREENAME” is “singles;553” in my example, as shown in the attached image?

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Hello,
TREENAME in your example is “Singles” (case sensitive).
“EnergyBranchName” is “energy” (name of the branch with energy values).
Energy is a variable that will be updated every time that the loop will load new entry with GetEntry(i).
SetBranchAddress function assigns the address of this variable to the branch with name “energy”.

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Dear mwojtas,
I am so sorry for bothering you.
I received this error:

Screenshot from 2017-05-11 13:45:57.png1400×1050 607 KB

And so, “energy” is exist both in Singles;533 and Singles;532. While i want to energy values only for Singles;533 branch.

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Oh yes, I think I made a small mistake in my code, you should change this:

TFile * inputfile = new TFile::Open( "DIRECTORY");

to this

TFile * inputfile = File::Open( "DIRECTORY", "READ" );
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I received this:

Screenshot from 2017-05-11 14:50:10.png1400×1050 594 KB

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Sorry again, but there was still a small typo -I must have deleted T in TFile when i was deleting “new”. So what you have to do is:

TFile * inputfile = TFile::Open( "DIRECTORY", "READ" );

I also ran it and checked that it works now, just to be sure :slight_smile:

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Thanks,
But, I have following error; after typing " .x tt.cxx(); > tt.txt" command in terminal.

root [0] .x tt.cxx(); > tt.txt
Error: Missing one of ‘,)’ expected at or after line 13.
Error: Unexpected end of file (G__fgetstream_template():2) tt.cxx:18:
Error: Missing one of ‘,;{(’ expected at or after line 18.
Error: Unexpected end of file (G__fgetstream_template():2) tt.cxx:18:
Error: Missing one of ‘{’ expected at or after line 18.
Error: Unexpected end of file (G__fignorestream():3) tt.cxx:18:
*** Interpreter error recovered ***

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It looks like it works for me:

image.jpg670×504 123 KB

And the txt output:
image.png765×587 47.9 KB

Maybe try just directly pasting it into the root command line?

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Thanks,
I received this:

Screenshot from 2017-05-11 18:58:36.png1400×1050 364 KB

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#include <string>

See the documentation for std::to_string.

More importantly it is unnecessary to convert to string as the operator << can handle a multitude of types including float types.

myfile << Energy << "\n";

See the documentation for ostream::operator<<.

PS: It is easier to read if you copy the code and output into code blocks or preformatted blocks instead of screenshots.