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Re: Re: Re: How to read a data file in text format?_from a new learner

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• Subject: [mg62454] Re: [mg62406] Re: [mg62359] Re: How to read a data file in text format?_from a new learner
• From: ggroup at sarj.ca
• Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:33:54 -0500 (EST)
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On Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at 01:12 GMT -0500, Gardyloo wrote:

>      Thank you! I've been working with Mathematica for about six years,
> getting progressively more advanced, and use SetDirectory and Import (or
> ReadFile) all the time to work with data. Always, I've had the stupid
> problem that I couldn't work with directories starting with "t", etc.,
> and got around it by simply putting "x" in front of names, like
> "xtankroom_data". I never would have thought that Mathematica parsed
> those things expecting "tab" characters, etc. in directories.

If you want a backslash in your string, you should escape the
backslash character, ie use "\\".  Doubling up an escape character to
signify the plain text version of that character is pretty common
practice.

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  • Re: How to read a data file in text format?_from a new learner
    • From: "jeff langston" <mightyspeck@hotmail.com>
  • Re: Re: How to read a data file in text format?_from a new learner
    • From: gardyloo <gardyloo@mail.wsu.edu>