Re: Re: ReadList, mix Words & Numbers?
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- Subject: [mg30952] Re: [mg30934] Re: ReadList, mix Words & Numbers?
- From: BobHanlon at aol.com
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 03:55:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In a message dated 2001/9/27 2:53:19 AM, rlove at neosoft.com writes:
>Mariusz Jankowski wrote :
>
>>Robert, here is the solution. I used the following approach - read the
>data
>>as a list of records and use string operations to locate the numbers and
>>extract.
>
>I didn't catch the error in this method until I tried it for myself. Every
>number generated from a string representing a number in "Exponent" form
>fails to convert correctly. For example, a string of " -0.7623174679E-008"
> becomes -10.0722
>
>Is there a way I can correctly convert strings of the form I have to
numbers?
>
ToExpression[StringReplace[
"-0.7623174679E-008", "E" -> "*^"]]
Bob Hanlon
Chantilly, VA USA