Help w/ conversion of txt file to useable form for Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg14209] Help w/ conversion of txt file to useable form for Mathematica
- From: darrmis at aol.com (Darrmis)
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 03:00:40 -0400
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
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Can anyone help me with a problem. I am using another program which
outputs a bunch of data into several text files. For example, an
outputed file would look like:
((surface_one 3)
(x
7
3
9
)
(y
2
1
6
)
(x-accel
24
17
2
)
)
Except the number of entries would be several thousand. Each new line
is a carriage return. I would like to get this data into mathematica
in the form of lists. For instance, based on the above example, I
would like to define in mathematica:
xcoord={7,3,9};
ycoord={2,1,6};
xaccel={24,17,2};
Does anybody know how to do this easily. I would be very grateful for
help. Thanks.
Karl Kevala
karlk at eng.umd.edu