Re: Writing strings
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg49237] Re: [mg49232] Writing strings
- From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 02:26:08 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200407080651.CAA04115@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On Jul 8, 2004, at 2:51 AM, camartin at snet.net wrote:
> Group,
>
> Why is it when I write a list of strings to a file, then try to read it
> back later, the list has only one element per line?
Because Write writes all the expressions onto one line as described by
help unless you include new lines explicitly in the list of
expressions.
> g= {"some string", "another sttring"}
> rat=OpenAppend["c:\file"]
> Write[rat, g]
> Close[rat]
>
Use Write[rat,#]&/@g. This will produce your desired results.
Regards,
Ssezi
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- Writing strings
- From: "camartin@snet.net" <camartin@snet.net>
- Writing strings