print_codes()¶

print_codes(cell, file, codes)¶

Writes a cell’s codes to a file, separated by tab (\t).

Parameter	Type	Description
cell	RCell object	Cell whose codes you want to write to a file.
file	String	Path to the file that you wish to write the cell’s codes to.
codes	Array of Strings	Codes whose coded values you wish to print.

Returns

Nothing. Writes results to the specified file.

Example

The following example uses print_codes() to write the coded values for the cells in the “trial” variable to a file called “trial_codes.txt”, located on the Desktop.

require 'Datavyu_API.rb'

begin
   # Defines the location of the file that we're going to be outputting
   # the column data to - the file name is baby_codes.txt
   # and is located on the Desktop.
   out_file = File.expand_path("~/Desktop/baby_codes.txt")

   # Creates the file, and assigns write permissions 'w'
   out = File.new(out_file,'w')

   # Retrieves the "BabyLocation" column from the spreadsheet
   baby = getColumn("BabyLocation")

   # Define which codes we want to print out
   codes_to_print = ["ordinal", "onset", "offset", "arg01"]

   # Iterate through every cell in the BabyLocation column to
   # print its coded values.
   for cell in baby.cells
      # Write the ordinal, onset, offset, and code01 codes to the baby_codes.txt file,
      # which is accessed by the variable called out
      print_codes(cell, out, codes_to_print)

      # Write a newline to the file so that the values for each cell
      # will be in their own row
      out.write("\n")
   end
end