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Make Mathematica wait for File

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg43800] Make Mathematica wait for File
• From: YAT <yat at omrf.ouhsc.edu>
• Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 02:07:52 -0400 (EDT)
• Reply-to: yat at omrf.ouhsc.edu
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi all,
1. How do I make Mathemtica wait from reading a file until the file 
reaches a certain size?

2. How do I make Mathematica just go in and read a file, look for an 
occurance of some text, then store that as my Mathematica variable, 
rather than having to store the file as a Mathematica list, look for a 
match then grab the value.

W.R.T question 2, I guess I am a little confused about connections from 
Mathematica to text files in general and the proper use of InputStreams 
, ReadList, etc.

Thanks
Yas