Re: Reading csv with ;
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg99489] Re: [mg99415] Reading csv with ;
- From: peter <plindsay.0 at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 05:29:10 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200905050942.FAA20801@smc.vnet.net>
Dennis, a=Import["afile.txt","Table","FieldSeparators"->";"] ? Peter 2009/5/5 Dennis <detebeest at hotmail.com>: > I'm trying to read a csv with mathematica=85 > > Now the problem is that my system settings are at ";" as seperator instea= d of more traditional ",". So the it effectively looks like 1;1;1;1 instead= of 1,1,1,1 > > Normally this makes not difference as in most software you can choose the= delimiter/seperator before reading a file, so you pick =93separator = ;= =94 or whatever. > > With mathematica however I have so far been unable to do this. Now the qu= estion of course: how so I change the seperator with mathematica? > > Because quite a few files have a =93;=94 separator I would like to find a= solution within mathematica instead of changing the system settings. > > Cheers, > > Dennis > > -- Peter Lindsay
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- From: Dennis <detebeest@hotmail.com>
- Reading csv with ;