Re: passing an array variable as a file name string to FindList
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- Subject: [mg98258] Re: passing an array variable as a file name string to FindList
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 06:30:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi, FileNames[] alone is sufficient instead of Flatten[Table[FileNames[]]] and FindList[#,"Humpty Dumpty"] & /@ FileNames[] will search for the giant goose egg in you files. Regards Jens Venkatesh Ramakrishnan wrote: > Hi Everybody > > I have this problem for which I have to write a code - > > 1. There is a directory that contains around 30,000 text files. > 2. I wish to read each one of them and extract some information. > > Now, > > Flatten[Table[FileNames[]]] > > will give me all the file names in a table. > > So, > > An array variable with the subscript that contains the loop counter > will > give me the filenames one by one. > > The question is, how do I pass the array variable as a String argument > to functions like - > > FindList[] > ReadList[] > > and other text file manipulation commands? > > If anybody can shed some light on this, I would be very thankful. > > With best regards > Venkatesh > >