Re: reading from file
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- Subject: [mg80197] Re: reading from file
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:15:20 -0400 (EDT)
On 8/13/07 at 4:27 AM, jsheinwald at comcast.net (Jesse Sheinwald) wrote: >This is an example of reading from a file that I took from the book >"An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica" by Wellin. The >author provides data for a number of examples and the reader is >instructed to store this date either in the BaseDirectory or the >UserBaseDirectory. Did you do this? That is did you create the indicated directory and copy the file to it? If you didn't then doing >I entered the Mathematica code (v6) as this with >the programs response... >datafile = ToFileName[{$BaseDirectory, "Applications", "IPM3", >"DataFiles"}, "dataset.m"] >Out[4]= >C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application >Data\Mathematica\Applications\ \IPM3\DataFiles\dataset.m >data = Import[datafile, "Table"] >$Failed will result in an error since the file and directory won't exist. ToFileName constructs a valid path regardless of whether the file and directory exist or not. -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four