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Re: A Conditional File Import

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• Subject: [mg66105] Re: [mg66076] A Conditional File Import
• From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
• Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:41:09 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200604281033.GAA03210@smc.vnet.net>
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On Apr 28, 2006, at 6:33 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:

>
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm wondering if there's a way to do a conditional import of a file
> into Mathematica.  Say I wrote some code to process a lot of data and
> it takes a long time to complete.  After it's done, I save my results
> by exporting to a text file.  When I come back later (months
> later...) to pick up where I left off, I'd like to avoid
> inadvertently, and because of poor memory, running that long script
> again if I already have the results on my hard drive (you would think
> that I'd have the sense to check first, but no).
>
> I was thinking of a script that would work something like this:
>
> If there is a file X
> 	then
> 		import the file
> 	else
> 		[message] "The darn thing doesn't exist!"
> 		Reprocess the raw data --- [message] "Better make some coffee."
> End if
>
> 	Regards,
>
> 		Greg
>

Here is a newbie approach:

SetDirectory["path_to_that_darn_thing"];

files = FileNames["*.darn"];

length=Length[files];

If[length==0,Print["The darn thing doesn't exist!"];FrontEndExecute 
[FrontEnd`HelpBrowserLookup["Gergory's_math_programs",  
"Reprocess_the_raw_data"]],];

Import["The_darn_thing"];

János


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  • A Conditional File Import
    • From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny@videotron.ca>