http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/getResult-to-Array-gives-NaN-tp5017460p5017465.html
> Hi Herbie & Matt,
>
> funny enough, the ImageJ macro language does support mixed arrays,
> having Strings and numbers (internally, both are type 'Variable'). E.g.,
> the following macro works:
>
> a = newArray(1, "theString", PI);
> for (i=0; i<a.length; i++)
> print(a[i]);
>
> However, the getResult macro function is for numeric values only. If
> there is a String argument, it tries to interpret the string contents as
> a number (parse the String).
>
> You have to use getResultString for Strings.
>
> If you don't know beforehand whether it is a number or a string, you can
> try getResult, and, if it returns NaN, use getResultString.
>
> Michael
> ________________________________________________________________
> On 2016-10-24 17:36, Herbie wrote:
>> Good day Matt,
>>
>> you can't have strings and numerical values in the same array.
>>
>> Therefore, you may convert the values to strings to end up with a pure
>> string array. If you like to read the values back from the string array,
>> you have to convert them from strings to numbers.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Herbie
>>
>> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>> Am 24.10.16 um 17:22 schrieb PEARSON Matthew:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm having a bit of an issue with taking values from the results
>>> table and putting them into an array. The first column of the
>>> results table contains a string, the current images title stored as a
>>> variable such as "test.tif" all other columns contain numbers. The
>>> results table displays fine but when i loop through using getResult
>>> to put all the table values into an array, when i print the resultant
>>> array (Array.print) the values from the first column containing
>>> strings are listed as NaN. How can i correct this? Ultimately when
>>> i use this array to produce the final results table the first column
>>> is then filled with NaN.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help,
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
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