Re: importing and using data
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- Subject: [mg17234] Re: importing and using data
- From: rlsmith at his.com (Richard Smith)
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 02:00:17 -0400
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I believe I had the same problem. I solved it my using the
StirnigToNumber funtion below. I don't fully understand it but it
worked for me.
StringToNumber[s_String] :=
Block[{ss, result},
ss = StringToStream[s];
result = Read[ss, Number];
Close[ss];
result
]
This function "StringToNumber" was found in
Http://www.wolfram.com/support/Kernel/Files/CommaSeparatedData.html.
Good Luck
Dick
On 17 Apr 1999 04:27:49 -0400, vango at lamar.colostate.edu (Doug
VanGoethem) wrote:
>
>I have a large, one column data set in a tab-delimited text file. It
>appears to read correctly when I use data=ReadList["filename", Number], but
>when I tried to do a ListPlot or perform a Fourier transform I get an error
>message that says it is not a list of numbers or pairs of numbers. I have
>also tried data=Transpose[Readlist[....]], but this did not make any
>difference.
>
>Has anyone encountered this before or know how to fix it?
>Thanks,
>Doug V
>