Re: Convert long String to large Array
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- Subject: [mg10301] Re: [mg10283] Convert long String to large Array
- From: seanross@worldnet.att.net
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 03:47:21 -0500
- References: <199801040424.XAA26372@smc.vnet.net.>
H. Neilson wrote:
>
> Would someone lend us a helping hand please...........
>
> We're reading an ASCII data file into Mathematica 3.0 on Windows95. The
> data is delimited by spaces and consists of numbers 1-12, repeating 8
> times;
> a segment of which follows:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3....... This
> is "dummy" data, actual data will not be repetitive
>
> The Head is List and its name is nofo.
>
> We would like to take the data and generate a 12x8 array.
>
> We thought the following would work, but it and various changes have
> not produced the desired result.
>
> Table[noform[{N[j(j-1)+i]}],{j,8},{i,12}]
>
> The idea was to specify the location within nofo from which to get a
> value and also specify the location in the new array to place that
> value.
I assume that noform is the same array as nofo previously mentioned and
that you intend noform[{N[j(j-1)+i}] to be an array element of some
sort.
1- if you want to specify an array element, then you use double square
brackets (noform[[1,2]], not noform[1,2]). 2- array elements are
integers, so putting the N[] function to convert the element into a
real number is a bad idea. 3- I see no reason for the curly braces in
this case.
Based on the above, I would use noform[[j(j-1)+i]].
You might also check out the functions Take, List, Transpose, TakePart,
Partition, Flatten, Map etc. Mathematica tends to be more efficient
using operator paradigm programming rather than procedural
programming(such as Do loops and Table functions)
Until you get the hang of mathematica, I recommend making a little cheat
sheet for yourself with basic syntax rules, such as are found in the
mathematica book section 1.2.5. In my first few months of programming,
I found such a cheat sheet very helpful since I had the tendency to use
bracketing more appropriate for FORTRAN or C.
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