Re: problem exporting numbers to text file
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- Subject: [mg3962] Re: problem exporting numbers to text file
- From: wagner at motel6.cs.colorado.edu (Dave Wagner)
- Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 01:46:12 -0400
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In article <4mjpe5$b4u at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, James Gregurich <bayou at rouge.phys.lsu.edu> wrote: >... export a list of numbers to a space >delimited text file which imported into foxpro. I've run into a problem >where the row exceeds 80 columns and the line chopped off with a '\' put at >the end of it. ... I can't figure out how to >increase the line width. > >I've tried > >SetOptions[$Output,PageWidth ->Infinity] You're setting the pagewidth for your screen, not the file. In order to do the latter, you have to get a "handle" for the file. Use s = OpenWrite[filename, PageWidth->Infinity], and then write the data using Write[s, expr]. Finally, close the file using Close[s]. Dave Wagner Principia Consulting (303) 786-8371 dbwagner at princon.com http://www.princon.com/princon ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====