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Re: Saving data with notebook

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• Subject: [mg111905] Re: Saving data with notebook
• From: annetts729 <annetts729 at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:05:57 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Kent,

On Aug 17, 1:21 pm, "Kent A. Vander Velden"
<kent.vandervel... at gmail.com> wrote:
> My routine is typically to Import[] data into Mathematica (often multiple
> files), perform some manipulation, and plot the results. I'd like to be able
> to use the Mathematica notebook as the archive of the raw data, analysis,
> and results. To do this, I'd like to save the contents of some if not all
> the variables associated with a notebook, preferably into the notebook. I've
> searched for methods to do this and the only thing I've found is to print
> the contents of variable and reformat this to form an assignment that canbe
> save with the notebook. This is not so great in my case as often the input
> data is several 100 megabytes. I suspect this is a common need and I'm
> curious how other handle it. I'm probably overlooking an obvious option.
>
> Thank you

There is DumpSave[] which allows you to save various parts of a
session.  Perhaps using this to save particular variables would work
for you?

D.