[Date Index] [Thread Index] [Author Index]

Re: Reads only part of file

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg51166] Re: [mg51163] Reads only part of file
• From: "Maxim A. Dubinnyi" <maxim at nmr.ru>
• Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 05:25:43 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200410060835.EAA24296@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Use option DOSTextFormat->False while opening a stream:

strm=OpenRead["filename", DOSTextFormat->False]
ReadList[strm, ....]
Close[strm]

This option is required on Windows platform, Linux version of
Mathematica reads correctly any type of text/binary files.

Sincerely,

Maxim A. Dubinnyi

Steve Gray wrote:

>	My previous post said that only part of my binary file was reading in. Further investigation
>shows that Mathematica stopped reading when it got to a data byte value of $1A = 26, which is an EOF value.
>	Help says it will do this but does NOT say how to keep reading the file. Obviously in a
>binary file any value must be readable. I am getting around this for now by changing all the 1A's to
>1B's with a hex file editor (which does NOT have trouble reading past EOF's), but this is a pretty
>awful solution.
>	Is there a better way? Thanks for any leads.
>
>Steve Gray
>
>  
>

• References:
  • Reads only part of file
    • From: Steve Gray <stevebg@adelphia.net>