read numbers



On 5/20/07, Thomas Widlar <twidlar at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I need to read some floating point numbers from a file into Maxima.
> I see there is no read function. Can I put one together from LIST
> functions? Has someone done this already?

Thomas, take a look at the numericalio functions.
Maybe read_list or read_matrix or one of the other functions is appropriate.
?? read_ should find their documentation.

HTH
Robert Dodier