Re: elementary import
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg114125] Re: elementary import
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:00:05 -0500 (EST)
On 11/23/10 at 5:58 AM, fgutiers2002 at yahoo.com (Francisco Gutierrez) wrote: >This is a very basic import question. I've got this Excel >spreadsheet, and to miantain my data ordered I have stored it in a >drive different from C. It is called seg, and saved in drive J, in a >folder called ejstat, so: J:/ejstat >However, when I want to import it into Mathematica (7 or 8) I run >into problems. For example: SetDirectory["J:"] >Import["ejstat\seg.xls", "XLS"] If you are going to specifically write the path I think you need to write as: Import["ejstat\\seg.xls", "XLS"] on a Windows system. Note, I am writing this on a Mac and cannot test it to be sure. However, you can avoid machine dependencies here by doing: Import[ToFlileName["ejstat", "seg.xls"], "XLS"] If the file were nested in a deeper directory, the first argument would be a list of all of the directories in order to get to the file you want. =46or more information look up $PathnameSeparator and ToFileName in the DocumentCenter