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• Subject: [mg27197] ReadList
• From: Matthias.Bode at oppenheim.de
• Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 03:10:44 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Dear Colleagues:

I have to read an external file.txt:

ReadList["D:\theirfile.txt", Record, RecordList->True]//N

This works and yields the appropriately partitioned list  but gives me - as
InputForm proves - a list in which the numbers are (expletive deleted)
words:

mylistoftheirfile = {{"0.001, 0.2, ..."}, {"..."}, ....}

How can I convert the "words" to plain rational numbers that will be
amenable to a principal component analysis, my ultimate aim?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards,

Matthias Bode
Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. KGaA
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