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Re: changing the name of exported file without typing

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• Subject: [mg84749] Re: [mg84732] changing the name of exported file without typing
• From: "Louis A. Talman" <talmanl at mscd.edu>
• Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:18:08 -0500 (EST)
• References: <200801120307.WAA19305@smc.vnet.net> <DBD3AB1D-1A30-492F-A262-28EA55CE6364@mscd.edu>

On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Louis A. Talman wrote:

> Drop the Print instruction (and its associated square brackets),  
> change the first two commas to the string concatenation operator  
> <>, and wrap ToString around the first instance of r:
>
> Do[Export["f" <> ToString[r] <> ".dat"], f[r]], {r, 0, 2}]
>
> Note:  If you have very many of these things, you may want to add  
> 100 (or 1000, or even 10000) to that first instance of r.   
> Otherwise you might be in for an unpleasant surprise when your  
> operating system sorts your files into an unexpected order.  Thus,  
> I'd do:
>
> Do[Export["f" <> ToString[100 + r] <> ".dat"], f[r]], {r, 0, 2}]

Oops--I didn't follow my own instructions.  One ] too many.   
Should've been

Do[Export["f" <> ToString[r] <> ".dat", f[r]], {r, 0, 2}]

and

Do[Export["f" <> ToString[100 + r] <> ".dat", f[r]], {r, 0, 2}]

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  • changing the name of exported file without typing
    • From: Jack Yu <Jack.Yu@astro.cf.ac.uk>