copytable

Copy a table associated with a table-handle and optionally resize it with or without interpolation.

Synopsis

table = copytable(table_handle[, newsize[, interp_type]])

Parameters inside the [brackets] are optional.

Description

copytable makes a copy of a table associated with table_handle. Using the optional newsize argument, the copied table may be larger or smaller than the original table. The second optional argument, interp_type determines if the resized table uses interpolation or simply truncates the values to determine the values in the new table.

Arguments

• table_handle

  The table-handle identifier for the table to be copied and possibly resized

• newsize

  An optional value setting the size of the copied table. If newsize is used, then the interp_type should also be specified.

• interp_type

  If newsize is specified, then the interp_type can also be set. This is a string, identical to two of the interp options for maketable:

  • “interp”/”nointerp” — “interp” enables simple first-order linear interpolation, i.e. if a requested table value lies between two elements in the table, setting “interp” will generate an intermediate value based upon a linear interpolation of nearest sample values. For example, if the value at table location 314.15 were requested, the value returned would be 0.15 between the value at location 314 and the value at location 315. “nointerp” turns off interpolation; the values returned from the table will be ‘rounded-down’ (truncated) to the nearest-lowest point in the table. For example, if the table value at location 149.78 were requested, the “nointerp” option would return the value stored at location 149. The default is interp.

RETURN VALUE

Returns a table-handle for the new, copied and (possibly) resized table

Examples

   table = maketable("wave", 4000, 1.0, 0.2, 0.1)
   newtable = copytable(table, 1000, "interp")

newtable will be associated with a new table that will contain the same waveform defined in the first maketable, except that it will only fill 1000 elements instead of 4000. The new values will be determined by linear interpolation if they don’t align with the values taken from the original 4000-point table.

See Also

maketable, modtable, makefilter, makeconverter, plottable, dumptable, tablelen, mul, div, sub, add