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Re: Importing (and dealing with) multiple files

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  • Subject: [mg60789] Re: Importing (and dealing with) multiple files
  • From: albert <awnl at arcor.de>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:40:56 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <dhdbdh$8f3$1@smc.vnet.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

hi,

>  I tried using FileNames[] to
> get the list of files, assigning them to an array, then using Import[]
> on each of those array elements.  It didn't work.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

My suggestion would be to do exactly what you said did not work for you.
This should give you a list containing all data:

SetDirectory["your/data/directory"];
alldata = Map[ImportFileNames["*.ASC"]]

If the datafiles are large, it might be better to extract the relevant data
instead of store their contents in a list:

SetDirectory["your/data/directory"];
resulttable = Map[
Function[{filename},yourextractionfunction[Import[filename]]],
FileNames["*.ASC"]
]

If that doesn't work, you should give details about what goes wrong and I'm
sure you will get help to get this running...

cheers,

albert


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