COLEXTRACT

Purpose:

Extracts a portion of each column of a table.

Syntax:

COLEXTRACT(a, start, length, offset)

a	-	A table.
start	-	A series. A list of integer starting points.
length	-	A series. A list of integers specifying the number of points to be extracted from each column. -1 implies extract to the end of the column
offset	-	Optional. A series. A list of real values specifying the X offset of the resulting columns. Defaults to the X value of the starting points.

Returns:

A table.

Example:

a = {{1, 2, 3},

{4, 5, 6},

{7, 8, 9},

{3, 4, 5}}

b = colextract(a, {1, 2, 3}, {3, 2, -1})

b == {{1, 5, 9},

{4, 8, 5},

{7}}

Here COLEXTRACT implies the following:

Starting at the first point, extract 3 points from column 1.

Starting at the second point, extract 2 points from column 2.

Starting at the third point, extract to the end of column 3.

Example:

W1: integ(gnorm(100,1))

W2: integ(gnorm(200, .1))

W3: ravel(W1, W2)

W4: colmaxidx(W3)’

W5: colextract(W3, W4-10, ones(numcols(W3), 1)*20+1)

W6: W1;overp(col(w5, 1), lred)

W7: W2;overp(col(W5, 2), lred)

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W6 and W7 highlight in light red a 20 point window around the maximum values of the original series in W1 and W2.

Remarks:

If start is negative, zeros are prepended to the result. If the number of points to extract is greater than the series or table length, the result is padded with zeros.

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