reading data from a file



Thanks a lot but 
there must be a problem:
if I do as you suggest I get the
follwoing error message:
f : ?open("/home/caruso/Work/code/maxima/test.out")$


Maxima encountered a Lisp error:

 Error during processing of --eval option "(cl-user::run)":

  The value |&/home/caruso/Work/code/maxima/test.out|
  is not of type
    (OR (VECTOR CHARACTER) (VECTOR NIL) BASE-STRING PATHNAME STREAM).

Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.

  Fabrizio


On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Richard Fateman wrote:

> 
> You can try this
> 
>   f :  ?open (?"c:/temp/foo.txt")$
> 
>   ?read(f);
>   ?read(f);
>   ?read(f);
> 
> Etc.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu [mailto:maxima-
> > bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Fabrizio Caruso
> > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:40 AM
> > To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> > Subject: reading data from a file
> > 
> > Sorry for this question but
> > have tried "describe" with
> > file, load, read, open, etc...
> > and could not file
> > anything useful.
> > 
> > I need to read some data from an ascii file
> > and put it into some Maxima variables.
> > 
> > For example from a file containing a some lines
> > seperated by CR and each containing some
> > numbers separated by spaces.
> > 
> > Writing into a file is easy in Maxima
> > (for example "with_stdout" does it)
> > but I can't find a way to read from a file.
> > 
> >   Fabrizio
> > 
> > 
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