Re: Add a line to the top of a comma delimited file?
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- Subject: [mg32800] Re: Add a line to the top of a comma delimited file?
- From: "Avraham Shinnar" <as1619 at columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 06:23:57 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Columbia University
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"\n" is an escape sequence that represents the newline character.
- Avraham
"1.156" <rob at piovere.com> wrote in message news:a404hv$bqa$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Albert, I just tried it and it sure looks good to me. I'm still trying
> to figure out the full significance of that /n.
>
> So thank you very much for your suggestion. I had some help from
> another source which also solved the problem. His solution was
> a bit more involved but I think he was trying to teach me something
> about how Mathematica works.
>
> Again many thanks for such a simple solution.
>
> Regards, Rob
>
> Albert Retey wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Why not just
> >
> > WriteString[outfile,"PLINE\n"]
> >
> > right after your call of OpenWrite[] ?
> >
> > hope that helps
> >
> > Albert
>
>