# Importing and evaluating text file [closed]

I appologise in advance if this was asked before, but I couldn't find the answer.

I have a huge amount of data collected in several lists that I need to analyse. I don't want to have all this data listed in my actual Mathematica file, because it would take an enormous amount of space in my notebook. Rather, I want to save it in an external .txt file and somehow import it. The .txt file is of a form:

a={1, 2, 3, 4};
b={5, 6, 7, 8};
c={9, 10, 11, 12};


and I am looking for a way to read it and evaluate it in the notebook without actually writing it down. I want to be able to then do operations on a, b, and c as if they were part of the notebook from the beginning.

## closed as off-topic by m_goldberg, Henrik Schumacher, Bob Hanlon, Szabolcs, José Antonio Díaz NavasJan 8 at 22:00

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• Have you tried Get["file.txt"]? – J. M. will be back soon Jan 6 at 13:31
• I am an idiot. It worked, tnx. – uuu Jan 6 at 13:42
• This should be saved as a .wl file if it is a bunch of Wolfram Language code. – GenericAccountName Jan 7 at 0:43