Re: comments in import files
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- Subject: [mg74665] Re: comments in import files
- From: "beheiger" <beheiger at hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:00:00 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Szabolcs,
I took up your approach in the following form:
ImportTableNoComments[filename_] := Module[{tempfilename, res},
tempfilename = filename <> "~";
Run["grep", "-v", "^#", filename, ">", tempfilename];
res = Import[tempfilename, "Table"];
DeleteFile[tempfilename];
Return[res];
];
Works for me! Thanks,
Andy
"Szabolcs" <szhorvat at gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> On Mar 28, 11:39 am, "beheiger" <beheiger at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to know if Mathematica can handle comments in import files.
>> In particular, I would like to add lines of comments to an
>> <emptyspace>-separated
>> ASCII table (say, "results.dat") that I produced with other programs.
>> However,
>> I can't seem to find anything on how to write these comments in such a
>> way
>> that
>> Mathematica's function, used as
>>
>> Import["results.dat","Table"];
>>
>> does not complain. Help is appreciated.
>>
>> Regards, Andy
>
> If nobody else posts a better solution (I hope that someone will), you
> can use the grep program to strip out the comments, e.g.
> readTable[filename_] := (Run["grep", "-v", "^#", filename, ">", "c:\
> \temp\\tmpfile"]; Import["tmpfile", "Table"])
>
> (This will remove lines starting with #.)
>
> Of course you can also use Mathematica to read the file line by line
> and strip out the comments, but it may be slow with large datasets.
>
>