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Re: Re: help! to input data...

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  • Subject: [mg4394] Re: [mg4228] Re: help! to input data...
  • From: welter at .ti.com (Jason Welter)
  • Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:31:57 -0400
  • Organization: Texas Instruments
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In article <4qqn4c$49m at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, jfultz at wolfram.com says...
>
>> In article <4pit53$jk5 at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, tcdoe+ at pitt.edu says...
>> >
>> >well, silly me.
>> >I thought i was pretty good at the basics of mathematica, but today i 
>> >tried to input some numerical data that was comma delimited. i.e.
>> >
>> >456,-45,21,0,5
>> >43,25,3,66,65
>> >...
>> >...
>> >...
>> >
>> >it is a large data file (10Mb+) with 5 numbers per line. i can't
>> >convert the commas to tabs easily.
>> 
>> You don't need to convert the commas to tabs.
>> 
>> Solution #1: Open the file and put a "{" before the first number
>> and a "}" after the last.  This creats one big list and can be
>> read in using something like data = <<"C:\\temp\\data.txt";
>
>BAD!!  Don't do this!  You will get erroneous data and Mathematica will
>never tell you there were any errors.  Here's what happens.  Create the
>sample data file:
>
>{1,2,3,4
>5,6,7,8}

This is close but not the way real comma delimited files look.  I took his
word for it and assumed it was really comma delimited.  If the data did look like:

1,2,3,4
5,6,7,8

then it would be comma and return delimited.  If that was the case, a global
search and replace of the return character with either a "," + return or
"},{" + return  is easy enough.

In either case I find it easier to do the search and replace than to remember
"Map[First, ReadList["d:\\tmp\\foo", {Number, Character}]]"!  Can it get any
more obscure?

BUT...

John, do you know of a way to read this into MMA:

    Intradie---> [ACON]
      # TestName[ACT245P ]  [    PMC1] [    PMC2] [    PMC3] [    PMC4] [    PMC5]
    ----------------------  ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
       1 [CONTI_M1       ]  & 0.00000  & 1.00000  & 1.00000  & 1.00000  & 2.00000 

    Intradie---> [ACHNB]
      # TestName[ACT245P ]  [    PMC1] [    PMC2] [    PMC3] [    PMC4] [    PMC5]
    ----------------------  ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
       2 [CA_GOI_GOE_NM  ]   -19.5000   -19.3000   -19.6000   -20.0000   -19.7000 
       3 [CA_GOI_GOE_PM  ]    18.0000    17.8000    18.0000    18.4000    18.2000 
       4 [CH_1.00_NM_TR  ]    121.853    115.612    188.382    168.093    273.507 
       5 [CH_1.00_NM_TH  ]    125.392    162.555    164.442    244.348    251.892 
       6 [CH_1.00_PM_TR  ]    3.44601    3.30223    3.10842    3.45061    4.58194 
       7 [CH_1.00_PM_TH  ]    2.25403    2.03261    2.07853    2.33058    3.10277 

    Intradie---> [ACON]
      # TestName[ACT245P ]  [    PMC1] [    PMC2] [    PMC3] [    PMC4] [    PMC5]
    ----------------------  ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
       1 [CONTI_M1       ]  & 0.00000  & 1.00000  & 1.00000  & 1.00000  & 2.00000 

    Intradie---> [ACHNB]
      # TestName[ACT245P ]  [    PMC1] [    PMC2] [    PMC3] [    PMC4] [    PMC5]
    ----------------------  ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
       2 [CA_GOI_GOE_NM  ]   -19.5000   -19.3000   -19.6000   -20.0000   -19.7000 
       3 [CA_GOI_GOE_PM  ]    18.0000    17.8000    18.0000    18.4000    18.2000 
       4 [CH_1.00_NM_TR  ]    121.853    115.612    188.382    168.093    273.507 
       5 [CH_1.00_NM_TH  ]    125.392    162.555    164.442    244.348    251.892 
       6 [CH_1.00_PM_TR  ]    3.44601    3.30223    3.10842    3.45061    4.58194 
       7 [CH_1.00_PM_TH  ]    2.25403    2.03261    2.07853    2.33058    3.10277 


etc.

I have about a dozen files each hundreds of K large and am having to load it into 
Excel, parse & sort & prep for mathematica.  I need the numbers to be recognized as
numbers by MMA, not characters.  Ideally the data would look like:

    {{1,{1,0.00000,1.00000,1.00000,1.00000,2.00000}, 
        {2,-19.500,-19.300,-19.600,-20.000,-19.700},
        {3,18.0000,17.8000,18.0000,18.4000,18.2000}, 
        {4,121.853,115.612,188.382,168.093,273.507}, 
        {5,125.392,162.555,164.442,244.348,251.892}, 
        {6,3.44601,3.30223,3.10842,3.45061,4.58194}, 
        {7,2.25403,2.03261,2.07853,2.33058,3.10277}},
     {2,{1,0.00000,1.00000,1.00000,1.00000,2.00000}, 
        {2,-19.500,-19.300,-19.600,-20.000,-19.700},
        {3,18.0000,17.8000,18.0000,18.4000,18.2000}, 
        {4,121.853,115.612,188.382,168.093,273.507}, 
        {5,125.392,162.555,164.442,244.348,251.892}, 
        {6,3.44601,3.30223,3.10842,3.45061,4.58194}, 
        {7,2.25403,2.03261,2.07853,2.33058,3.10277}}}


Jason Welter





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