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Re: selecting columns from a list

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• Subject: [mg47857] Re: [mg47844] selecting columns from a list
• From: Oleksandr Pavlyk <pavlyk at phys.psu.edu>
• Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 03:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Penn State University; Department of Physics
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Hi Edo,

One way of doing it is to apply Drop
for every line.

data = Drop[#, 2]& /@ data;

Sasha



Edo wrote:

> Hello
> I just started with mathematica, wanted to load a comma separated data 
> file and drop the first two columns. So I did
> data=Import["C:\Data\filename.ext","CSV"]; to get the file into a 
> variable "data", then I am stuck, after doing some reading in the help 
> files about Drop, Partition, Take. ? etc
> could someone tell me what to read and where to find info about indexing 
> different data structures
> 
> thanks

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