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Tutorial 9: Importing and Exporting Data Into Mathematica

The document discusses importing and exporting data into Mathematica. It describes formatting text files with the correct end-of-line character and delimiter for importing. It demonstrates importing data from a text file, plotting the full and partial data, and writing arrays from Mathematica to an output text file.

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Tutorial 9: Importing and Exporting Data Into Mathematica

The document discusses importing and exporting data into Mathematica. It describes formatting text files with the correct end-of-line character and delimiter for importing. It demonstrates importing data from a text file, plotting the full and partial data, and writing arrays from Mathematica to an output text file.

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Tutorial9_ExportingImportingData.

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Tutorial 9: Importing and Exporting Data into Mathematica


This tutorial tells how to import and export data into Mathematica, which is unnecessarly difficult in Mathematica. Here,
I input a file call FS_data.txt which is located on the "c" drive at c:\Temp\FS_data.txt.

ü Importing Data

In order to inport the data, you need to properly format the text file with the correct end-of-line character and delimiter.
Below is one method to properly format the text file, I use here a space delimiter with an end-of-line command after each
row. There are other ways to do this properly.

1) In origin, export your data with comma, space option. Export as *.dat file
2) In MsWord, find the comma and replace them with 1 space.
3) Save a *.dat file in Word using "Save .txt with line". This provide the correct format for the import into Mathematica

The data format is two columns by n rows. I use the function OpenRead to import the data.

f = OpenRead@"c:\Temp\FS_data.txt"D
data = ReadList@f, 8Number, Number<D;
Close@fD

InputStream@c:\Temp\FS_data.txt, 7D

c:\Temp\FS_data.txt

Now I can plot the data

ListPlot@data, Frame −> True,


PlotRange −> 8All, All<, PlotJoined −> TrueD;

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ü Separate data

Now I wish to separate the data to just plot one column


Tutorial9_ExportingImportingData.nb 2

idata = Table@data@@i, 2DD, 8i, 1, 1024<D;

ListPlot@idata, Frame −> True,


PlotRange −> 8All, All<, PlotJoined −> TrueD;

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ü Write Data to File

One can also write arrays in Mathematica to text files as well. Here I will write ordered pairs to a file called "intal.tx" at
c:\. The first commman opens the file at path "f", the second writes the data to the path, and the third command closes the
path "f".

f = OpenWrite@"c:\intal.txt", FormatType −> OutputForm D

OutputStream@c:\Intal.txt, 4D

Do@

" ", FortranForm@Re@intλ@@i, 2DDDD D, 8i, 1, num<D


Write@f, FortranForm@N@Re@intλ@@i, 1DDDDD,

Close@fD

c:\Intal.txt

To get proper formatting using scientific notation, I use FortranForm for the output.

? FortranForm

FortranForm@exprD prints as a Fortran language version of expr.

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