Re: read CSV
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg117794] Re: read CSV
- From: David <dlkeith at comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:04:41 -0500 (EST)
On Mar 30, 2:13 am, Alan <alan.is... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've received some files formatted like below.
> How can I read selected columns into a list?
> I'm coming from a background where I'd read in each line,
> discarding the first, then (in this case at least)
> split on the comma, and coerce the type. So I'm happy
> to do that if I can figure out how. (Naturally I could
> preprocess the data into a form that say ReadList
> likes better, but I'm looking for a pure Mathematica solution.)
>
> Thanks,
> Alan Isaac
>
> "x","y","color","pen down?"
> "0","0.26161459854014585","105","true"
> "1","0.2665251497682828","105","true"
> "2","0.29244385081680907","105","true"
> "3","0.31995416628471895","105","true"
Sorry -- my earlier reply included a typo -- here is a corrected
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