read_list



Richard Fateman wrote:

>I've never used read_list
>But maybe you need a CR before the end of file.
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>I already gave you my suggestion, which is to add a few characters to your
>testdata file.
>RJF
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I used your suggestion of creating a maxima statement and then loading 
it in maxima
to run a small test. It worked fine.

But this was a larger test with the output from a FORTRAN program run on 
Linux
with about 100 vectors. I expect to get several of these, so I was 
trying to set up a
system where I didn't have to do a large boring mistake-prone edit to 
run each one.

I edited this testdata0.txt  in WordPad  and added a couple of blank 
lines at the end.
I checked the file with HexEdit and the LF/CRs were there.

But read_list still does not terminate but silently hangs. Any new input 
gets added to
the displayed command line after ENTER is hit.

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu 
>>[mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Widlar
>>Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 12:07 PM
>>Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu
>>Subject: read_list
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>>Experimenting with read_list I did on WinXP using wxmaxima (5.12)
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>>    (%i5)   a : read_list("d:/tjw/max/testdata0.txt");
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>>where "d:/tjw/max/testdata0.txt"  is a large file of numbers 
>>separated by
>>blanks and some LFs (no CR);
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>>I get no response. Typing further commands just gets those characters 
>>appended
>>to (%i5). Could maxima be reading the command line input as 
>>part of the 
>>read_list
>>because  read_list hasn't finished?
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