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Re: Mathematica is destroying my sanity....

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  • Subject: [mg53101] Re: Mathematica is destroying my sanity....
  • From: Peter Pein <petsie at arcor.de>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:59:16 -0500 (EST)
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Todd Allen wrote:
> Hi everyone (and Happy Holidays!)
> 
>      I am trying to parse a 450 Mb text file for
> certain important information and then would like to
> save the smaller, parsed information in a suitable
> file for later importation and futher analysis.  I
> have made some progress, but have stumbled yet again.
> 
> Below is the situation:
....

> 
> ****At this point, I want to save the data and
> organized structure of the data currently contained in
> temp2.
> 
> I have tried numerous variations, with the following
> being the best (yet still undesirable) result:
> 
> Export["subparseBlastN", temp2, "List"] (* to save
> data *)
> 
> In[45]:=
> tempsub=Import["subparseBlastN","Table"];
> 
> ****The result of the new import in "tempsub" looks
> awful and really messes up the data organization for
> me:
> 
> Out[47]=
> {{{"CEST-01-A-01",,"1120",,"0.0"},,{"CEST-17-A-06",,"985",,"0.0"},,{"CEST-04-\
> E-04",,"52",,"3e-07"},,{"CEST-28-H-03",,"50",,"1e-06"},,{"CEST-46-G-10",,"48",\
> ,"5e-06"},,{"CEST-37-B-11",,"48",,"5e-06"},,{"CEST-21-D-05",,"48",,"5e-06"},,{\
> "CEST-21-A-11",,"48",,"5e-06"},,{"CEST-21-A-10",,"48",,"5e-06"},,{"CEST-19-G-\
> 12",,"48",,"5e-06"},,{"CEST-13-F-07",,"48",,"5e-06"},,{"CEST-10-E-05",,"48",,\
> "5e-06"},,{"CEST-04-E-08",,"48",,"5e-06"},,{"CEST-60-C-12",,"46",,"2e-05"},,{\
> "CEST-59-D-02",,"46",,"2e-05"},,{"CEST-29-A-06",,"46",,"2e-05"},,{"CEST-26-H-\
> 10",,"46",,"2e-05"},,{"CEST-25-F-11",,"46",,"2e-05"},,{"CEST-20-C-11",,"46",,\
> "2e-05"},,{"CEST-19-F-10",,"46",,"2e-05"},,{"CEST-11-E-06",,"46",,"2e-05"}}}
> 
> (1) Is there a way to export my original "nice"
> looking list (the temp2 list), so that it will import
> in exactly the same?
> 
> (2) Even though the Head of each element in both the
> "temp2" and "tempsub" lists are Strings, why does
> Mathematica put extra quotation marks around the newly
> imported list items and not the original list items?
> 
> 
> Whew, I am outta breath.  Any thoughts or suggestions
> where I might find useful information?  As
> always,thank you to the numerous people who have
> helped me out in the past.  This is an excellent forum
> for learning Mathematica.
> 
> Best regards,
> Todd
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Hi Todd,

use the same format for Export and Import (Table in this case).

Merry Xmas,
Peter


-- 
Peter Pein
Berlin


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