Ted, the problem is that there is a variable in the stringproc package
(which you must have loaded, I guess) named "space".
Try write_data(<whatever>, 'space) (i.e. quote the variable).
HTH, Robert Dodier
On 5/27/11, Edwin Woollett <woollett at charter.net> wrote:
> 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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>
> (%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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