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Re: ToExpression with CForm

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  • Subject: [mg6462] Re: [mg6368] ToExpression with CForm
  • From: seanross at worldnet.att.net
  • Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 23:00:25 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Finger wrote:
> 
> Hey Folks,
> 
> I try despertly to convert a stringfile, which containes sienc.
> notation of numbers (for example -3.7E10) into a Mathematica Input
> form.
> 
> The only way I see, is writing it back to a file, to read it with
> ReadList, or to Replace all the E's with 10^ . Both ways seem strange
> to me. How does ReadList do this..
> 
> Does anyone know?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help.
> 
> Lutz Finger


You might try reading in the file as strings, then using StringReplace 
to change the E's into 10^'s  ToExpression on the result ought to give 
you what you want.


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