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Re: Trying to export two column table to text file

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• Subject: [mg77903] Re: Trying to export two column table to text file
• From: nazdrovje at gmail.com
• Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:43:48 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jun 18, 1:33 pm, Diana <diana.me... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jean-Marc,
>
> Thank you for your time and persistence. You solved my problem with
> the following line:
>
> Export["C:\\Users\\Diana\\Documents\\sequence.txt",
> MapIndexed[StringJoin[ToString[#2[[1]]], " ",
>      ToString[#1]] & , tt], "Lines"]
>
> where "tt" is the name of my list of integers.
>
> For some reason, I don't have privileges to my own C directory. At
> your suggestion, I needed to specify the export file path as my
> Documents. Also, I accidentally discovered that I needed two "\\", not
> one, between directories in the file path specification.
>
> Thanks, you have saved me oodles of work.
>
> Diana M.

The double '\' stems from the fact that \ is used to indicated the
start of an escape code, like \n for newline or \t for tab. To escape
the escape the \ has to be doubled. If you use Insert/file path, the
slashes are doubled automatically.