Re: how to take quotation marks away ?
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- Subject: [mg48515] Re: how to take quotation marks away ?
- From: Marcus Stollsteimer <marcus314 at yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 04:49:31 -0400 (EDT)
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Florian Jaccard wrote:
> I have a (long) list of the form {{"42.1,3.3"},{"3.1,4.2"}}
>
> How can I transform it to obtain {{42.1,3.3},{3.1,4.2}} ?
Hi Florian,
use ImportString[]:
import[list_]:=Map[ImportString[#,"CSV"]&,list,{2}] // Flatten[#,2]&
{{"42.1,3.3"}, {"3.1,4.2"}} // import
gives:
{{42.1, 3.3}, {3.1, 4.2}}
Regards,
Marcus
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