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Re: Beginner's Question on I/O Files for Raw Numerical Data

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• Subject: [mg57931] Re: Beginner's Question on I/O Files for Raw Numerical Data
• From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jmg336 at nyu.edu>
• Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:50:49 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: New York University, New York, U.S.A
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 08:48:10 +0000 (UTC), John Schutkeker
<jschutkeker at sbcglobal.net.nospam> wrote:

>I'm looking for an economical way to make polar plots of the trajectories 
>of the nine planets, from a 'C' simulation I'm writing, and since Excel is 
>insufficient, I'm thinking of moving up to Mathematica.  Can anybody tell 
>me if Mathematica can read and write lists of ascii data?  And am I right 
>in assuming that there's no way to read and write .csv files (comma 
>separated values)?

I am afraid you are totally wrong! Have a look at the Mathematica
functions _Export_ and _Import_ and their long list of recognized file
formats:

http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/functions/Export

http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/functions/Import

You will notice that not only Mathematica 5.1 can read and write CSV
files but also XLS files among many other type of text and binary
files.

Best regards,
/J.M.