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Re: File/Stream I/O with Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg25810] Re: File/Stream I/O with Mathematica
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 01:41:03 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,

you must load the file contents as a string to the Mathematica
Kernel.

Regards
  Jens
Justus Heimann wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm running Mathematica 4.0 on WinNT and 3.0 on IRIX 6.5.
> 
> I have a question concerning "unstructured" File/Stream I/O with
> Mathematica:
> 
> Does anybody know a Mathematica function which allows to open external
> Ascii-files, just scanning the file for a specific text-string in order
> to directly replace it with some other string when found and than again
> closing the Ascii-file (somehow similar to a UNIX script) ?
> 
> Thanxs,
> Justus