Re: Re: Re: Bug in Import?
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- Subject: [mg54833] Re: [mg54797] Re: [mg54765] Re: Bug in Import?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 05:07:32 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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_I_ cannot discern what that behavior is; that's why the documentation would be desirable! All I can really infer so far from the experiments is that .dat files are not, by default treated as text. That the two records of the test .dat file give different results when imported with the default behavior may or may not be a bug. I don't know what the format expected of a .dat file is. DrBob wrote: >>> Rather than a bug, the behavior originally cited would seem to >>> be a failure of the documentation to describe the default behavior >>> of Import when the file extension is ".dat". > > > Then describe it, please, so this behavior makes sense. > > Bobby > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:26:43 -0500 (EST), Murray Eisenberg > <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote: > >> Here's what I get: >> >> $Version >> 5.1 for Microsoft Windows (October 25, 2004) >> >> Export["test.dat", {{"2005-01-24", "2005-02-14"}, >> {"2005-01-24", "2005-02-14"}}]; >> >> Import["test.dat", "Text"] // InputForm >> "2005-01-24 2005-02-14\n2005-01-24 2005-02-14" >> >> Import["test.dat"] >> {{"2005-01-24", "2005-02-14"}, {2005, -1, -24, 2005, >> -2, -14}} >> >> Rather than a bug, the behavior originally cited would seem to be a >> failure of the documentation to describe the default behavior of Import >> when the file extension is ".dat". >> >> >> meznaric wrote: >> >>> Hm, this seems strange. I am using 4.1 and what happens is this: >>> >>> Export["R:\\test.dat", >>> {{"2005-01-24", "2005-02-14"}, >>> { "2005-01-24", "2005-02-14"}}] >>> >>> Import["R:\\test.dat"] >>> {{1980, 1989}, {1980, 1989}} >>> >>> !! R:\\test.dat >>> 2005-01-24 2005-02-14 >>> 2005-01-24 2005-02-14 >>> >>> In the Import case Mathematica seems to have actually evaluated those >>> cells as if they hadn't been strings, but integers. >>> >>> In your case, it certainly seems to be a bug, though. How can two >>> identical list parts be exported/imported in a different way? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Sebastjan Meznaric >>> >>> >> > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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