Re: Re: importing data
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- Subject: [mg16672] Re: [mg16568] Re: importing data
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kevinmccann at Home.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 12:54:19 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Works either way for me under W98.
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker701 at earthlink.net>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg16672] [mg16568] Re: importing data
>When I use SetDirectory on my system (Win95), I have to use
>forward slashes in my directory names. Like
>SetDirectory["C:/MyMathematica"] instead of
>SetDirectory["C:\MyMathematica"].
>
>Lawrence
>
>"Kevin J. McCann" wrote:
>>
>> Bernard,
>>
>> See the help on ReadList. I have a file called "dummy.dat" which looks
like
>> this
>>
>> 1.0 1.0
>> 2.0 4.0
>> 3.0 9.0
>> 4.0 15.0
>>
>> SetDirectory["C:\MyMathematica"]; (* where the file is *)
>>
>> (* This just reads them in as a single list *)
>> ReadList["dummy.dat",Number]
>> {1.,1.,2.,4.,3.,9.,4.,16.}
>>
>> (* Following reads them in as a list of pairs *)
>> ReadList["dummy.dat",{Number,Number}]
>> {{1.,1.},{2.,4.},{3.,9.},{4.,16.}}
>>
>> (* For kicks you can try this one *)
>> ReadList["dummy.dat"]
>>
>> and see what you get.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> bernard keenan wrote in message <7cd6dv$o54 at smc.vnet.net>...
>> >I wrote a C program that generated several hundred points. I printed the
>> >data to a file titled econ.dat. I was wondering how I could import this
>> data
>> >into Mathematica and plot it.
>> >
>> >tia
>> >
>> >bernard keenan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
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