Re: Convert long String to large Array
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- Subject: [mg10299] Re: Convert long String to large Array
- From: Bruce Wolk <bawolk@ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 03:47:19 -0500
- Organization: University of California, Davis
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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.
>
> Could someone explain why the above does not produce what we want and
> also suggest some code that will do the job?
>
> Does anyone know of a text with extensive coverage on handling arrays
> with Mathematica?
>
> Thank you very much!!
>
> P.S.....One other issue was just brought to my attention. What if we
> want to extend our new array to make it 15x8, keeping the existing
> array as is, thus each line would look like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11
> 12 13 14 15.
> In essence, a 3x8 array is tacked onto the right side of our existing
> array. (Again, we are not looking to generate the numbers: 13,14,15;
> rather to add a 3x8 array of non repetitive data at some later date.)
> If your solution can be modified to do this, great. If not, could you
> also offer a suggestion on this problem as well.
>
> Again, thank you for your help.
The simplest way to read in a space delimited ascii file is to use
ReadList. Assume your file name is "data."
info = ReadList["data", Number]
will make info a one-dimensional list of all the data. If you want to
break it up into rows of 12, you can use a template as follows
info = ReadList["data", Table[Number, {12}]]
Hope this is useful.
Bruce