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Re: how to make arrays from text file in mathematica??

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• Subject: [mg97653] Re: how to make arrays from text file in mathematica??
• From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
• Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:51:55 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,

simply try e.g.:

Import[filename, "Table"]

Mathematica is smart enough (version 7) to distinguish between strings 

and values.

Danile



Nishant wrote:

> Hi

> Iv searched for this on the wolfram tutorials but could not find an answer to this.

> What I have to do is to convert a text file having a format like this:

> a b 123

> into a graph with a and b as the nodes and 123 as the weight..

> I thought of putting a and b in an array and 123 as the value and then creating a graph from it..the problem is Readlist would read each line as a separate record..and hence making an array out of it is seemingly difficult..

> What could be the solution??

>