Re: reading variable names and values from a file
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg41546] Re: reading variable names and values from a file
- From: Bill Rowe <listuser at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 05:46:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 5/24/03 at 1:03 AM, cww at lanl.gov (Chuck Wilkerson) wrote:
>I would like to read a text file that looks like the following:
>a 1
>b 2
>c 3 ....
>and end up having assigned the value in the second column to the
>variable name in the first column, i.e.
>a=1
>b=2
>c=3 ....
Try the following:
data=ReadList[file, {Word, Number}]
Evaluate[ToExpression[First/@data]]=Last/@data