RE: Q:ReadList is reading spaces with numbers - what do I do?
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- Subject: [mg11132] RE: [mg11077] Q:ReadList is reading spaces with numbers - what do I do?
- From: "Barthelet, Luc" <lucb@ea.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:40:50 -0500
I just tried, copying the data you provided below. It worked. I got:
{{1,1,24496,1285,3310,31648,9203},{2,2,23598,1391,3230,31648,9123}} are
you sure you don't have tabs or other weird characters in the file? if
you want you can email me the file directly and I can try to reproduce
it.
(don't copy the file to mathgroup).
Luc.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony [SMTP:uctpjac@ucl.ac.uk]
To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
>Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 5:32 PM
>To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
>Subject: [mg11077] Q:ReadList is reading spaces with numbers - what do I do?
>
>Hello, and sorry for a very "un-Mathematica" like post. I'm just having
>a problem with Mathematica's file reading capabiliites that I've not
>had in the past.
>
>I am running Mathematica 3.0 for Linux.
>
>When I define:
>
>myres = ReadList[
> "dsbok.ton",{Number, Number, Number, Number, Number, Number,
>Number}]
>
>I get:
>
>{{ , ,24496 ,1285 ,3310 ,31648 ,9203 },{2 ,2 ,
> 23598 ,1391 ,3230 ,31648 ,9123 }, ....etc ....
>
>}
>
>wheilst in fact, the top of "dsbok.ton" has:
> 1 1 24496 1285 3310 31648 9203
> 2 2 23598 1391 3230 31648 9123 In other words, ReadList is
>skipping the first 2 1's, and not taking the space as a word-separator.
>
>I have tried:
>Reading words rather than Numbers;
>Using WordSeparator -> {" ","\t"};
>Reading another file.
>
>None of these has worked. the _really_ frustrating thing is that I think
>that this procedure worked a month ago on just the same bits of data!
>Has anyone run into and solved this problem?
>
>Tony
>