Re: Writing strings
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- Subject: [mg49247] Re: Writing strings
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 02:26:18 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Hi,
try
ys=Get["c:\\file"]
Regards
Jens
"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?
>
> For example
>
> g= {"some string", "another sttring"}
> rat=OpenAppend["c:\file"]
> Write[rat, g]
> Close[rat]
>
> This writes to a file
>
> {"some string", "another sttring"}
>
> When I read it back in using
>
> tat=OpenRead["c:\\file"]
> ys=ReadList[tat, String]
>
> It reads the file in but there is only one element in the list i.e.
>
> p=ys[[1]] = {"some string", "another sttring"}
> p[[1]]
> doesn't exist. That means I can't recover the different strings. Could
> someone explain this and how I can get a list of strings I can use or
> partition?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cliff