How to read a certain number from a file?
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- Subject: [mg42132] How to read a certain number from a file?
- From: cyberdude <quake_earthNOSPAM at hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 04:57:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, Suppose I have the following text file (file name is abc.txt): ................................................... ..... 3 children ....... he carries 2 ............. ................................................... If I am given the words 'children' and 'he carries' but no other words and it is assumed that they appear only once in the file, how can I extract the numbers '3' and '2' which are next to these words in the file and put them into two variables with Mathematica? Thank you in advance. David