# Dynamic List Building and Exporting [closed]

My ultimate goal is to have a text file that contains the following information in the following format exported to a text file:

w12
otherdata
list1x
list2

w13
otherdata
list2x
list2

w14
otherdata
list3x
list2


I will essentially have three lists that I start with (otherdata, list1x, and list2). I need to increment each element in the list by a known amount a set number of times.

In this particular case, list1x has five elements:

list1x = {1,1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4};


Now I want to build a second list that increments each element by, let's say, 0.5 and then have it make a new list:

list2x = {1.5,1.6,1.7,1.8,1.9};


And so on and so forth a set number of times that I choose (like 1000). After I build the lists I then want to export a text file in the format that I have shown above.

I'm pretty new to Mathematica and was wondering if there was a simple, elegant way to do this without a million For or While loops. Using something like Sow and Reap perhaps?

Anything would be useful at this point! Thanks so much in advance!

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## closed as too localized by Yves Klett, Artes, Sjoerd C. de Vries, Jens, m_goldbergApr 29 '13 at 0:25

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you can create a list of the list1x, list2x etc lie this: NestList[ # + .5 &, {1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4}, 5 ]. You didn't say how list1 etc are to be created. You can output all these with Export (which is described in the docs and lots of places here) –  acl Mar 28 '13 at 16:15
The NestList works fairly well. It's more the getting the data to be in the format I showed in my question. Exporting a list of data is easy and straightforward. It's exporting the data in the format that is messing me up. –  Timothy Mar 28 '13 at 16:25
I guess my point is, it's not clear what the problem is. You have a bunch of lists, just make them strings, join them, with line breaks at the right place and export them. Is that what you don't know? –  acl Mar 28 '13 at 17:08

Data building:

data = With[{
otherdata = {11, 44, 33},
list2 = {5, 8, 13, -17, 10},
list1x = {1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4}},
Table[{"w1" <> ToString[i + 1],
otherdata, list1x + .5 (i - 1), list2}, {i, 3}]];


Exporting:

Export[NotebookDirectory[] <> "output.txt",
ExportString[Flatten[Riffle[data, ""], 1], "Lines"]]


Into the directory where you saved the notebook. I appended zero string to the end of each Table sublist (with Riffle) so that ExportString spaces paragraphs with an empty line.

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Thanks for the answer BoLe. That was almost exactly what I was looking for. I was able to tweak the snippet of code you provided and get the result I desired. Once again, thanks a bunch! –  Timothy Apr 2 '13 at 12:07