Spreadsheet to array

Hi,
I am trying to read from a spreadsheet.
PressDir=-1,1,-1,1
how would I make this work?
I think my conversion code is wrong.
But I have tried everything.
Message Edited by krispiekream on 04-06-2010 11:13 AM
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Krispiekream
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TurboPhil wrote:
Judging from your screencapture, it looks like you want your variable "PressDir" to be represented as an iteger. Therefore, I assume you want to be able to read in a spreadsheet string as a boolean array, and then format the boolean array into an integer. (i.e. the array [1,0,0,1] would translate to the number 1001 in binary, or 9 decimal).
Many things don't make a lot of sense here. Why would you scan it as a DBL array since there are only integers? The original problem has 1 and -1, not 1,0, and we don't know what other possible value there are, maybe -1, 0, 1? I also would not reverse the array, else you get assignment problems if the length changes.
Here'as one possible alternative, showing both how to make a -1, 1 array and a bit representation of it.
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