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List print out

  • To: mathgroup at yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu
  • Subject: List print out
  • From: billl at helmholtz.sdsc.edu
  • Date: Sat, 10 Aug 91 14:41:52 -0700

Is there a sensible way to print out a list into a file so that it
appears as columns and rows (spaces and newlines) instead of as a list
with curly brackets.

I'm currently using :

printout[file_,ls_] := Block[{out = OpenWrite[file],
	                lim1 = Length[ls],lim2 = Length[ls[[1]]]},
	For[x=1,x<=lim1,x++,
    	  For[y=1,y<lim2,y++,WriteString[out,ls[[x]][[y]]," "]];
	  WriteString[out,ls[[x]][[y]],"\n"]];
	Close[out]]

which is not very elegant nor very fast for large lists.
I've tried fancier things like:

printout[file_,ls_] := Block[{out = OpenWrite[file]},
	WriteString[out,ToString[TableForm[ls,TableSpacing->{0,1}]]];
	WriteString[out,"\n"];
	Close[out]]

but this puts multiple spaces between numbers so that the columns line
up.  

There must be an easy way to do this.  What is it?

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