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.