Mathematica v8: import a space-delimited table of numbers?
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- Subject: [mg115800] Mathematica v8: import a space-delimited table of numbers?
- From: Gordon Robertson <grobertson at bcgsc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:30:55 -0500 (EST)
I routinely use Import[] for "CSV" and "TSV" files, but now need to
import a space-delimited file in which each line has a string as the
first element, and then thousands of (space-delimited) decimal numbers.
After looking at the help documentation, and previous posts on
MathGroup, I don't see a simple way to Import while specifying that the
separator is a space (in R's read.table, I'd use sep=" ").
I expect that I could read in the file as a table, split lines on
spaces, then map ToExpression across the numbers in each row. Have I'd
missed something in the documentation?
Thanks for your help.
Gordon
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Gordon Robertson
BC Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre
Vancouver BC Canada
604-707-5800
www.bcgsc.ca
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I routinely use Import[] for "CSV" and "TSV" files, but now need to
import a space-delimited file in which each line has a string as the
first element, and then thousands of (space-delimited) decimal
numbers. <br>
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After looking at the help documentation, and previous posts on
MathGroup, I don't see a simple way to Import while specifying that
the separator is a space (in R's read.table, I'd use sep=" "). <br>
<br>
I expect that I could read in the file as a table, split lines on
spaces, then map ToExpression across the numbers in each row. Have
I'd missed something in the documentation?<br>
<br>
Thanks for your help.<br>
<br>
Gordon<br>
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