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sci2mma--A Filter to Convert Data in Scientific Notation Format to Mathematica Input Format
Author

Tyler Perkins
Old MathSource #

0206-345
Revision date

1995-01-18
Description

sci2mma acts as a filter or file conversion utility to convert occurances of strings of the form "1.234e-5" to "1.234*10^-5 . Thus a text file produced by a program written in C, Fortran, etc., may be used as input to Mathematica using its Get function.
Subject

*Wolfram Technology > Front End > Importing
Keywords

utilities, data conversion, filter, scientific notation, interfacing, file formats, number format conversion, number conversion, sci2mma, mktemp, shell-script, Fortran, C
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mktemp (1.9 KB) - Temporary-file utility used by sci2mma
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sci2mma (1 KB) - Unix shell script