Re: specifying the output filename as a parameter to a function
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- Subject: [mg15195] Re: specifying the output filename as a parameter to a function
- From: Wagner Truppel <wtruppel at uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:01:29 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Don,
I had the same problem recently and managed to solve it using Put[] and
PutAppend[] explicitly, in place of >> and >>>, as in
Put[ yatta, outfile ] or PutAppend[ yatta, outfile ].
Wagner
At 11:20 PM -0500 on 12/18/98, Don Keefer wrote:
>Good Morning,
>
>I'll make this as short as possible - I have written a function that
>reads in a list of data, modifies it, and writes it out to an external
>file. I would like to be able to specify the output filename as a
>parameter to the function. In other words:
>f[x_,y_,outfile_]:=
>(yatta;
>yatta;
>yatta;
>yatta>>outfile)
>When I try this is doesnt work - it just names the outfile "outfile".
>How can this be done?
>Thanks,
>J.Russell
>******************************************************** Don
>Keefer dkeefer at isgs.uiuc.edu
>Groundwater Geology Section 217-244-2786
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