<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear experts:<div class="">Me and my colleague at another university idependently I get this warning when we try to open an edf file:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(3, 47, 98); font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Warning OPENEDF: Physical Minimum larger than Maximum</span><span class="pl-cce" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(3, 47, 98); font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">\n</span></div><div class=""><span class="pl-cce" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(3, 47, 98); font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">I’m using fieldtrip 2020113. Looking at the source code <blockquote type="cite" class=""><a href="https://github.com/fieldtrip/fieldtrip/blob/master/private/openedf.m" class="">https://github.com/fieldtrip/fieldtrip/blob/master/private/openedf.m</a></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I read:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></blockquote><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">if (any(EDF.PhysMin >= EDF.PhysMax))</span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">fprintf(2,'Warning OPENEDF: Physical Minimum larger than Maximum\n');</span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>EDF.PhysMin = EDF.DigMin;</span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> EDF.PhysMax = EDF.DigMax;</span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">end</span></font></div></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">but then a couple of lines up, I see both EDF.PhysMin and EDF.PhysMax, (and also EDF.DigMin and EDF.DigMax) being set to the same thing:</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div class="">EDF.PhysMin= str2num(char(fread(EDF.FILE.FID,[8,EDF.NS],'char')'));</div><div class="">EDF.PhysMax= str2num(char(fread(EDF.FILE.FID,[8,EDF.NS],'char')'));</div><div class="">EDF.DigMin = str2num(char(fread(EDF.FILE.FID,[8,EDF.NS],'char')')); %</div><div class="">EDF.DigMax = str2num(char(fread(EDF.FILE.FID,[8,EDF.NS],'char')')); %</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So it is quite reasonable that I will get this warning. I’m puzzled. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. What’s purpose of this warning?</div><div class="">2. Why are the variables set to the same value?</div><div class="">3. Can I safely ignore this warning?</div><div class="">4. Or is there something I misunderstood.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks a lot,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Kat</div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Katarina Bendtz</b>, PhD<br class="">Research Fellow<br class="">Kreiman Lab<br class="">Boston Children's Hospital<br class="">Harvard University<br class=""><br class="">+1 (617) 390 45 16<br class="">3 Blackfan Circle <br class="">Boston, USA</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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