Re: dynamic variable definiton
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- Subject: [mg67287] Re: dynamic variable definiton
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:27:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 6/14/06 at 6:28 AM, tsariysk at craft-tech.com (T.Sariyski) wrote:
>Hi, I have a list of lists. The first element of each list is a
>description, the rest are numerical. Is it possible dynamic to
>create variable and to assign values to them? For example, I read
>data with ReadList:
>rawdata=ReadList["myfile.txt",Word,WordSeparators->"",RecordListsïâ??¢
>True,RecordSeparatorsïâ??¢{"\n\n","\n","\n"}];
>{{Face 1},{observ 0.1000E+02 0.3000E+01 0.4000E+01},{center
>0.1050E+02 0.3000E+01 0.4000E+01},{e1 0.1000E+01 0.0000E+00
>0.0000E+00},{e2 0.0000E+00 0.1000E+01 0.0000E+00},{e3 0.0000E+00
>0.0000E+00 0.1000E+01},{v1 0.1050E+02 0.3500E+01 0.4500E+01},{v2
>0.1050E+02 0.2500E+01 0.4500E+01},{v3 0.1050E+02 0.2500E+01
>0.4000E+01},{v4 0.1050E+02 0.3500E+01 0.4000E+01}}
>I would like to have:
>Face=1; obsrv={0.1000E+02 , 0.3000E+01, 0.4000E+01};
>center={0.1050E+02, 0.3000E+01, 0.4000E+01}; e1=... etc.
You can achieve what you want with the following:
str = {"observ 0.1000E+02 0.3000E+01 0.4000E+01"};
Here, since I don't have a copy of your file as an example, I simply set a variable to one of the lines in your post.
Now to convert the first item to a symbol and set it to a list of the remaining items
In[12]:=
Set@@({ToExpression@First@#,Rest@#}&@StringSplit[First@str]);
In[13]:=
observ
Out[13]=
{0.1000E+02,0.3000E+01,0.4000E+01}
A couple of caveats. This will not work if there observ already exists in the Global` context. And, this sets observ to a list of strings. Likely more useful is to set observ to a list of numbers which can be done as follows:
In[16]:=
Remove[observ]
In[17]:=
Set@@{ToExpression@StringTake[First@str,6],ReadList[StringToStream@StringDrop[\
First@str,6],Number]};
In[18]:=
observ
Out[18]=
{10.,3.,4.}
Note in this example, use of Remove so that the Set command would work correctly. Also note, this code assumes you know the length of the first item. This code could of course be encapsulated in a module and used StringLength to find the length of the first item, eliminating the need to know the length of the first item.
Finally, I suspect the whole operation could be made simpler by either using Import instead of ReadList or changing the options to ReadList. Using Import, it should be possible to have the first item be read in as a string and all of the numeric items read in as numbers. Assuming a structure such as
{String, Number, ....}
for each record.
then
Set@@({ToExpression@First@#,Rest@#}&@record)
will do the trick. Again, this assumes a variable with the same name as the first item does not exist.
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