According to the write_data sect. of the
help manual:
"The recognized values of separator_flag
are comma, pipe, semicolon, space, and tab.
If separator_flag is not specified, the file
is assumed space-delimited."
I can get comma to work, but not space.
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Maxima 5.24.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (a.k.a. GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
2011-05-27
(%i1) dataL : [[0,2],[1,3],[2,4]]$
(%i2) write_data (dataL,"tmp4.out")$
(%i3) printfile ("tmp4.out")$
0 2
1 3
2 4
(%i4) write_data (dataL,"tmp4.out",comma)$
(%i5) printfile ("tmp4.out")$
0,2
1,3
2,4
(%i6) write_data(dataL,"tmp4.out",space)$
numericalio: separator flag " " not recognized; assume ``space''.
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Ted Woollett