multiPointSet_import.ijm

/*
 * @file import_MultipointSet.ijm
 * @title Marco for exporting multi-point set
 * @author Jiri Borovec
 * @date 13/06/2014
 * @mail jiri.borovec@fel.cvut.cz
 * 
 * @brief: This macro does importing set of points from Multi-point tool 
 * from .csv and .txt files (the name is specified during exporting)
 */

// ask for a file to be imported
fileName = File.openDialog("Select the file to import");
allText = File.openAsString(fileName);
tmp = split(fileName,".");
// get file format {txt, csv}
posix = tmp[lengthOf(tmp)-1];
// parse text by lines
text = split(allText, "\n");

// define array for points
var xPoints = newArray;
var yPoints = newArray; 
 
if (posix=="csv") {
	print("importing CSV point set...");
	//these are the column indexes
	//hdr = split(text[0]);
	if (text[0]==',X,Y' || text[0]==' ,X,Y') {
	   iLabel = 0; iX = 1; iY = 2;
	} else {
	   iX = 0; iY = 1;
	}
	// loading and parsing each line
	for (i = 1; i < (text.length); i++){
	   line = split(text[i],",");
	   setOption("ExpandableArrays", true);   
	   xPoints[i-1] = parseInt(line[iX]);
	   yPoints[i-1] = parseInt(line[iY]);
	   print("p("+i+") ["+xPoints[i-1]+"; "+yPoints[i-1]+"]"); 
	} 
// in case of any other format
} else {
	print("not supported format...");	
}
 
// show the points in the image
makeSelection("point", xPoints, yPoints);

run("Point Tool...", "label");