Re: Executing external notebook
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- Subject: [mg92771] Re: Executing external notebook
- From: Vince Virgilio <blueschi at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:16:31 -0400 (EDT)
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On Oct 11, 6:48 am, pdin... at gmail.com wrote: > I have a really trivial question, but nevertheless am stuck. > > Within a notebook file, how do I execute an external notebook and keep > all the results in memory? > > For example I have 5 files, > main1.nb > main2.nb > main3.nb > main4.nb > main5.nb > > each of which must call > common.nb > > which contains code that is common to all 5 main files. > > It seems like this should be easy to do but I cannot find an > appropriate command (Get seems like it is intended for this purpose, > but perhaps I am not using it correctly). I frequently do something similar to this. NotebookGet[] (http:// reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/NotebookGet.html) and nearby functions should serve you well. Further, you can even do substitutions on the expression returned from NotebookGet[] for presentation-level batch programming. Bottom line is that it's worthwhile to learn about the notebook programming functions. This is not to the exclusion of packages, which others have advised. I advocate those as well. However, I've found notebook programming and packages strongly complement each other. Vince Virgilio