Re: String to numbers
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- Subject: [mg55370] Re: String to numbers
- From: "Hans Michel" <hmichel at sdc.cox.net>
- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:12:08 -0500 (EST)
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- Reply-to: "Hans Michel" <hmichel at sdc.cox.net>
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John:
If your file follows the said format then the following should work
DeleteCases[
ReadList["C:\\data.txt", {Word, Number, Number, Number, Word},
RecordSeparators -> {"\n"}, TokenWords -> {"<", ">"}], _String, {2}]
replace "C:\\data.txt" with name and path of your own file.
Hans
"Erb, John" <jerb at saint-lukes.org> wrote in message
news:d1gu3b$p0$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>
> Hello,
>
> I have data in file in the form of strings, formatted as:
>
> <2.54 3.11 2.89>
> <3.58 5.24 5.66>
> ... more
>
> How can I read this into mathematica, and convert the strings to
> numbers,
> so I would have
>
> {{2.54,3.11,2.89},{3.58,5.24,5.66},...{}}
>
> Thank you,
>
> John C. Erb
> Email: John_C_Erb at prodigy.net
>
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