Re: Beginner: Importing files, maintaining file format.
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- Subject: [mg60657] Re: [mg60627] Beginner: Importing files, maintaining file format.
- From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:20:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Did you try ReadList ? Even if it takes all as text, then you can
convert elements with ToExpression and ToString after the read.
János
On Sep 22, 2005, at 2:08 AM, smotz555 wrote:
> I know there must be a simple solution to this...
>
> I have an array.dat file, that has an array in it that is already
> formatted and ready to plot. I'm going to be using the
> ListPlotVectorField, so array.dat is in the format
> {{point,vector},...}. I didn't see anything that let me take in 4
> data points into that format, so I made the array.dat fit the
> ListPlotVectorField format within the program it is generated.
> Basically I want to get from that .dat file to being able to plot.
>
> I've tried using import, but the line and table format there won't
> hold the format of the file.
> So I tried Import["array.dat, "Text"], which would be optimal but
> resulted in the output being considered as text, being put in "s,
> and wouldn't plot until the " were removed. I don't really want to
> remove those by hand...
>
> Then I tried using !!array.dat, but I can't seem to label that
> output as anything. I tried !!array.dat followed by varray = %,
> but when I plotted it said varray was null. I also tried a few
> other things similar to that.
>
> Any suggestions or a better method?
> Maybe there is another specification I can put in the Import function?
>
> Thanks,
> Lisa
>
- References:
- Beginner: Importing files, maintaining file format.
- From: smotz555 <greenli7@msu.edu>
- Beginner: Importing files, maintaining file format.