Re: Trouble related to "CSV"
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- Subject: [mg90468] Re: Trouble related to "CSV"
- From: email.slim at gmail.com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:35:37 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jul 9, 1:58 am, Bill Rowe <readn... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 7/8/08 at 2:26 AM, email.s... at gmail.com wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to read in data from a text file composed of strings and
> >tables of comma separated integers. Here's what I have:
> >rows = cols = 45; readstr = OpenRead["teststr.txt"];
> >For[r = 1, r =98 rows,
> >{For[c = 1, c =98 cols, { p[[r, c]] = Read[readstr, "CSV"], l =
> >Partition[p[r, c], rows], c++}], r++}],
> >=2E......
> >I am able to get this working on one machine with Mathematica 5.2,
> >but I can't get it to work on another machine with Mathematica 5.0
> >or Mathematica 6.0. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
>
> Why are you wasting your time to write a custom routine to read
> in such simple data from a file using commas to separate the
> values when
>
> Import["teststr.txt","CSV"]
>
> will do it for you? This will work in Mathematica version 4 and newer.
>
> Yes, it is possible to write a custom routine that will read
> files faster than Import will. But code using For in Mathematica
> is definitely not a way to improve on Import
Hi Bill,
Thanks for your reply.
The problem is the text file is composed of mix of strings and
integers, some are separated by space, and the rest by commas.
But I'll definitely try
=02> Import["teststr.txt","CSV"]
and see how it turns out.