List as variable
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg11938] List as variable
- From: roach@1001apl.washington.edu (A. T. Roach)
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:33:45 -0400
- Organization: Applied Physics Laboratory
I am a newcomer to Mathematica and am having a little trouble reading in a file. I can get In[1]:= ReadList["flnm",RecordLists->True,Numbers] to read in a file and make a list, but I don't quite understand how to put that list into a variable so that I can work on it. When I try something simplistic like In[2]:= data=ReadList["flnm",RecordLists->True,Numbers] I just get Out[2]=ReadList["flnm",RecordLists->True,Numbers] and In[3]:=data Out[3]=data I would suppose this is something fundamental and simple, but I am not making any progress, so any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks...remove 1001 to reply.