Re: Export, Import, Convert Types Again?
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- Subject: [mg57237] Re: [mg57193] Export, Import, Convert Types Again?
- From: "Tomas Garza Hernandez" <tgarza10 at msn.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 02:40:45 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
If you are using your imported data only within Mathematica (except, of
course, when you are through with the problem), then use ">>" (called "Put")
to save in internal format, and "<<" (or "Get") to retrieve into your
notebook. This will preserve your data exactly as used in the notebook.
Tomas Garza
Mexico City
>From: Lee Newman <leenewm at umich.edu>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>Subject: [mg57237] [mg57193] Export, Import, Convert Types Again?
>Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 04:43:32 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Q: What is the (best) way to save a big expression of data to be used
>later in the same notebook without having to do type conversion processing?
>
>Situation:
>
>1) I have a notebook that imports data from various Excel spreadsheets
>and converts the data to the desired types. When complete, I "save" the
>expression containing the data using Export, i.e,
>Export["featureDB.tsv", "TSV"]. I do this so I don't have to re-process
>the data everytime I do analysis on it in this notebook.
>
>2) When I open the noteobook again, I import the data using the
>statement: featureDB = Import["featureDB.tsv"]
>
>Problem:
>Many of type conversions that I took the time to process are lost.
>Using Head /@ featureDB[[1]] before and after the export/re-import, the
>types are as follows:
>
>Before: {Integer, Integer, List, List, List, Integer, List, List,
>Symbol, List}
>After : {Integer, Integer, String, String, String, Integer, String,
>String, String, String}
>
>So it seems that lists become Strings as Symbols (e.g. True, False,
>Null). I use Export so I can view the data outside Mathematica using a
>text
>editor -- should I use Save instead? Is there another Export format
>that will preserve mathematica expressions like lists upon Import?
>
>Thanks,
>Lee
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