Re: importing data
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- Subject: [mg16568] Re: importing data
- From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker701 at earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:54:51 -0500
- Organization: Morgan State University: COMSARE
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When I use SetDirectory on my system (Win95), I have to use
forward slashes in my directory names. Like
SetDirectory["C:/MyMathematica"] instead of
SetDirectory["C:\MyMathematica"].
Lawrence
"Kevin J. McCann" wrote:
>
> Bernard,
>
> See the help on ReadList. I have a file called "dummy.dat" which looks like
> this
>
> 1.0 1.0
> 2.0 4.0
> 3.0 9.0
> 4.0 15.0
>
> SetDirectory["C:\MyMathematica"]; (* where the file is *)
>
> (* This just reads them in as a single list *)
> ReadList["dummy.dat",Number]
> {1.,1.,2.,4.,3.,9.,4.,16.}
>
> (* Following reads them in as a list of pairs *)
> ReadList["dummy.dat",{Number,Number}]
> {{1.,1.},{2.,4.},{3.,9.},{4.,16.}}
>
> (* For kicks you can try this one *)
> ReadList["dummy.dat"]
>
> and see what you get.
>
> Kevin
>
> bernard keenan wrote in message <7cd6dv$o54 at smc.vnet.net>...
> >I wrote a C program that generated several hundred points. I printed the
> >data to a file titled econ.dat. I was wondering how I could import this
> data
> >into Mathematica and plot it.
> >
> >tia
> >
> >bernard keenan
> >
> >
> >
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