Re: please help with plot
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 - Subject: [mg19839] Re: please help with plot
 - From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
 - Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 01:20:25 -0400
 - Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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 - Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
 
Hi,
data=ReadList["yourdatafile",{Number,Number}]
will work.
You may also use your" numbers sequentially" and run
data=Partition{ReadList["yourdatafile",{Number}],2]
to get pairs.
Hope that helps
Mark G wrote:
> 
> I have a data file that consist of 2 columns.  I wish to treat the first
> column as my x-cordinate and the second as my y cordinate.  I have about 200
> data points.  How can I get mathematica to read this data and plot the
> points.  I have tried the ReadList command, but it reads the numbers
> sequentially instead of as an ordered pair.  I have mathematica 3.0.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark G