Re: adding a string to a list of number in the importing loop from a Web
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- Subject: [mg125216] Re: adding a string to a list of number in the importing loop from a Web
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357 at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:25:17 -0500 (EST)
- Delivered-to: l-mathgroup@mail-archive0.wolfram.com
I recommend that you go to the virtual book and read the sections on
strings.
data4 = {{"050318", "111529"}, {"050401", "113120"}};
Do[ID = data4[[i, 2]];
s = Import["http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_curves/"; <> "00" <> ID, "Text"];
Print[s], {i, 1, Length[data4]}]
Bob Hanlon
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:00 PM, maria giovanna dainotti <
mariagiovannadainotti at yahoo.it> wrote:
> Dear All,
> thanks for the previous suggestions all of them worked.
>
> I have a long list of elements (I just took two as example)
> data4 = {{"050318", "111529"}, {"050401", "113120"}} and I would like to
> add in the second element 00
> When I try
> Do[
> ID = data4[[i, 2]];
> s = Import["http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_curves/"; <> 00 ID, "Text"];
> Print[s],
> {i, 1, Length[data4]}]
> This does,'t work
> As well as the following:
> Do[
> ID = data4[[i, 2]];
> s = Import["http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_curves/"; <> "00" ID, "Text"];
> Print[s],
> {i, 1, Length[data4]}]
>
> As well as this again
> Do[
> ID = data4[[i, 2]];
> s = Import["http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_curves/"; <> "00ID", "Text"];
> Print[s],
> {i, 1, Length[data4]}]
>
> Is it a problem of the position of " " or something else?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> regards,
> Maria
>
> --- *Sab 25/2/12, Hans Michel <hmichel at cox.net>* ha scritto:
>
>
> Da: Hans Michel <hmichel at cox.net>
> Oggetto: RE: Importing data from the web
> A: "'maria giovanna dainotti'" <mariagiovannadainotti at yahoo.it>,
> mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Data: Sabato 25 febbraio 2012, 16:52
>
>
> Maria:
>
> Try
>
> data4 = {{"050318", "00111529"}, {"050401", "00113120"}};
> Do[
> ID = data4[[i, 2]];
> url = "http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_curves/"; <> ID ;
> s = Import[url, "Text"];
> Print[s],
> {i, 1, Length[data4]}
> ]
>
> The string join you were attempting did not work. I moved the concatenation
> of the url string external to the Import this way if you wish to test if
> the
> url exist before import you can. Somewhere on MathGroup there is code to
> test for existence of a URL.
>
> Hans
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maria giovanna dainotti [mailto:mariagiovannadainotti at yahoo.it]
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 12:55 AM
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: Importing data from the web
>
>
> Dear Math Group,
>
> I have a problem importing the data from a web page.
>
> data4 = {{"050318", "00111529"}, {"050401", "00113120"}}
> Do[
> ID = data4[[i, 2]];
> s = Import["http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_curves/<>ID<>", "Text"];
> Print[s],
> {i, 1, Length[data4]}]
>
> The error message is
> $Failed
>
> I am really grateful if you could help me
>
> Best regards,
> Maria
>
>
>
>
--
Bob Hanlon