Forrest Collman

I have fixed the error that was causing JoAnna's problem

Forrest, I ran into a problem with abf files containing tags. When I try to load them I get the following error:

??? The following error occurred converting from struct to double:
Error using ==> double
Conversion to double from struct is not possible.

Error in ==> abfload at 327
        Tagsec(i)=ReadSection(fid,TagSection.uBlockIndex*BLOCKSIZE+TagSection.uBytes*(i-1),TagInfo);

The problem seems to be in the line just before (line 325):

Tagsec=[];

This creates an empty double array, but output of the following loop is a struct. Simply commenting line 325 solved the problem for me.

Thanks again for an otherwise great function.

I am getting this error with some ABF2 files from pClamp10:

>> Kslow1_vc = abf2voltage_clamp([ Kfastslow_datadir '008/09821026.abf' ]);
** abf2load
opening ~/prinzlab/Logy/Data Compilation/Potassium Data/Subtracted/008/09821026.abf..
{??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions.

Error in ==> abf2load at 291
   h.recChNames=strvcat(h.recChNames, Strings{ADCsec(i).lADCChannelNameIndex});
...
}
291 h.recChNames=strvcat(h.recChNames, Strings{ADCsec(i).lADCChannelNameIndex});
K>>
K>> ADCsec(i).lADCChannelNameIndex

ans =

       64265

There are only about 7000 Strings, so this is way out of bounds. I also tried the python version of abf2load that is part of Neo, but that chokes on these files, too. I can send a copy of the file if you can take a look at it.

Thanks for the otherwise very useful utility!

(molecular devices developer page link is broken now. Is there a way to get to that code?)