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Re: selecting columns from a list

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• Subject: [mg47861] Re: [mg47844] selecting columns from a list
• From: Tomas Garza <tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx>
• Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 03:05:08 -0400 (EDT)
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If you have already read your data into "data", try any of the following:

In[1]:=
Transpose[Drop[Transpose[data], 2]]

In[2]:=
(Take[#, 2 - n] & ) /@ data

(where n is the number of columns in data).

Tomas Garza

Mexico City
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edo" <eddoGrasho at edo.com>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg47861] [mg47844] selecting columns from a list


> 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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    • From: Edo <eddoGrasho@edo.com>