Re: Reading, Modifying, and Writing a file with data with quotation marks
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- Subject: [mg29425] Re: [mg29406] Reading, Modifying, and Writing a file with data with quotation marks
- From: Mianlai Zhou <lailai at nikhef.nl>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 05:35:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, I think you may use thelist = ReadList["filename", Word, WordSeparators -> ","] to read the data from the file. After that you can use Insert[] to insert some extra elements into the list. Good luck! Mianlai Zhou Theory Group, NIKHEF Amsterdam, the Netherlands On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, JOHN C ERB wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to modify a data file on disk which has > the data enclosed in quotation marks. > A much-shortened example would be as follows: > > File as stored on disk > > "big","left","15","21.87","","0","smy" > "82","back","up","24","50","0","984" > "44","","up","symm" > > I would like to read this file into Mathematica, > then (for example), place two "0"'s after "21.87" on the first line, > place three "0"'s after "50" on the second line, then > store the result back onto a file on disk giving > > "big","left","15","21.87","0","0","","0","smy" > "82","back","up","24","50","0","0","0","0","984" > "44","","up","symm" > > My stumbling block is mainly the quotation marks. > > Thank you, > John C. Erb > email: John_C_Erb at prodigy.net >