A source of input or output: files and pipes are both examples of general Mathematica objects known as streams.
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How to force Close of opened stream when stream write previously failed (bug in opening stream twice)?
I opened a stream like:
str = OpenWrite[NotebookDirectory[] <> "myStream.tsv"];
and made an error when writing the first line (meant to be the tsv headers):...
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What is the fastest way to read the new lines in the dynamically updatable file?
I'm writing a log to a simple .txt file and want to read the last few records using Mathematica. But there are some problems.
f = OpenRead["logs.txt"];
Skip[f, ConstantArray[Number, 2], 1];
Read[f, ...
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Streams in parallel kernels. Writing in multiple files in ParallelDo loop in Mathematica
I need to write data in multiple files in ParallelDo loop:
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Naming indexed output streams
I need to write into multiple files in a Do loop.
Hence, I tried to open multiple streams:
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Join two datasets with a function similar to Vlookup [Big Dataset and Efficiency issue] - Wizards are welcome!
I am working on a huge dataset and I have a lot of data formatted in XML, we are talking about a couple of GBs. For this reason I am currently using the stream function to read them and extract the ...
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Why does ReadString complain about the stream not being opened in binary format?
This works fine:
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LibraryLink: How to read from a Mathematica stream in C?
Mathematica has a flexible streams interface. Functions like Read can read from a "stream" that may be backed by a file, pipe, string, network resource, etc. We can ...
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How many records? In a file (streaming)
I want to know how many records a file (large data) contains...
with streaming...like this:
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Communicating with server over Websocket using SocketConnect
I am trying to connect to a web socket feed of Gdax. The documentation is here, https://docs.gdax.com/#websocket-feed. There is no account needed and the information is public. I have successfully ...
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Is it possible to parallelize reading in Mathematica?
I have a gigantic data file that needs to be processed. I am reading it in chunks using ReadList with an InputStream. In my ...
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Explicitly control newline behaviour when writing strings with arbitary encoding
On Windows system, Mathematica by default opens stream which will automatically transform any "\n" into "\r\n". But I want pure ...
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Is building an event-based parser possible/reasonable in Mathematica (WL)?
Too long? Go to Problems section
Background
I like to learn by doing small, sometimes artificial, projects. Among other things I had 'parsers', and 'stream methods / streams in MMA' on my to learn ...
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Matrix Vector multiplication for very big matrices (>>RAM)
Problem
Suppose a matrix-vector product of the form $M\vec{v}$ should be calculated where the amount of storage needed to store $M$ is noticeably larger than the available RAM on a machine. What is ...
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How to export result from SQLResultSet into a csv
I have a sql query which produces very large data from a remote server but the data is too large to fit into memory all at once. So i want to read and export it sequentially into a csv. I am using the ...
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Read not advancing StreamPosition [closed]
[MMA 11.0, Win7 64bit]
I have a number of CVS files of ~1-2GB, millions of rows, so I want to read them in records, chunks building on Albert Retey's answer to this question
I assumed, and the ...
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Why ReadList ignores NullRecords for Number?
When thinking on this recent question the immediately obvious solution which came to my mind was to use ReadList with options ...
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Is there a way to redirect the output from `Echo`?
The newish function Echo is tremendously useful in quick-and-dirty debugging, since you can stick it pretty much anywhere in an expression and get feedback about ...
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Unexpected behaviour with WordSeparators and Read [duplicate]
I am confused about how Read separates elements.
The following all work fine:
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How to get the standard error stream for a ProcessObject?
When you run an external program using RunProcess, the program will run to completion and you will receive an association containing the exit code, stuff that went ...
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wolframscript creates tons of log files
On Linux, wolframscript seems to create log files in .Mathematica/ApplicationData/ProcessLink/Streams
for example:
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Why does using BinaryWrite make my file bigger? [closed]
I have a binary file 00010005.dat. I want to normalize the matrix so I use the following code:
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SliceStreamPlot3D or StreamPlot3D
I know that neither of the two functions listed in the title exist, but I basically replaced vector for stream to give you an idea of what I want. The most ideal would be ...
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How to visualize the vorticity of a 3D velocity field? [closed]
I sample a snapshot from a system with 50 particles including their position and instant velocities.
The snapshot is a list of 3 position and 3 velocities values per particle. i.e. 50 lines each of ...
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Is there a way to create ZIP OutputStream ?
I want to write data to a file using compression. Is it possible to do that just in time (like in java ZipOutputStream). E.g. what I want:
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Can Mathematica edit large binary files in-place?
I have a very large binary data file (several hundred GB) which I would like to edit using Mathematica. The only edits required are a few isolated byte replacements—no insertions or deletions. Is it ...
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How to flush stdout stream?
I am aware that one can write to a terminal standard output like so:
WriteString["stdout","Some stuff","\r"];
Note here that I am using a carriage return on ...
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How to read *all* input from stdin?
The answers given to this similar question won't do, because those solutions read only one line from stdin.
I want to read all available lines, pretty much in the ...
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how do I to create a function similar to feof in C?
Using C language,I can use feof to test if the pointer at end of file.
while(!feof(fp))
{
//to do
}
But in the mma,I ...
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How to Terminate Read at EndOfFile
We are working on a project that reads in a stream, extracts information from it, and then needs to stop the calculation when it reaches EndOfFile.
So for example,...
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Can Read[] apply a custom function automatically to the read values?
Read[stream, Number] will return a single read number. We can use a number of standard, documented types instead of Number, ...
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How to read and write data to open socket?
I am trying to open connection with socket. I am using this:
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Inconsistency of WriteString
Important Note
A kernel or maybe Front End restart probably fixed the problem. I did something weird today which is evaluate Context[StringQ]="test`", perhaps that ...
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`ReadString` and `StreamPosition` behaving strangely with custom terminators
I've stumbled on a strange behavior while trying to use custom terminators for ReadString.
When I use a simple String as the ...
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How can I dynamically display a stream position?
If I create a stream,
str = StringToStream["how can I dynamically display the stream position"];
Read[str, Word]
"how"
then, when I use,
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Importing large datasets using streams
I work with large data sets with 22 columns and up to a million rows. Each row contains one observation with several variables. All variables are numbers.
Simplyfied example:
1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,...
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Parsing tab delimited file
Problem Description
I have my data arranged in a tab delimited file and I'm trying to parse/access certain parts of it.
As an example, I'd like to extract the number of points and the sampling ...
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Use e notation in Stream output
I'm trying to save the results of a huge Radia calculation. I evaluate the function in a loop at multiple locations.
To export the data my first approach was to fill a Table and use the ...
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StreamPlot in 3 Dimensions
I would like to plot the vector equation $\left( {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}
{\frac{{ - a + \sqrt {{a^2} + 4bc} }}{c}}\\
{\frac{{ - a - \sqrt {{a^2} + 4bc} }}{c}}\\
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\end{array}} \right)$ as a stream ...
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ReadLine[file] after reopening a closed stream doesn't read at the beginning of file?
Take a text file from your system:
file = OpenRead["path/to/your/file"]
ReadLine[file]
Close[file]
Here ReadLine[file] ...
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Reading from a socket stream
I noticed an undocumented socket package (SocketLink) in Mathematica (Using version 10, not sure when it was actually added) and wrote a barebones HTTP responder ...
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ReadList can't read “.csv” data with correct line number?
Well, the problem was solved today.
Since "testAll.csv" is generated by Java/Eclipse, and I noticed that the LineSeperator is "\...
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How to import files with headers?
R has excellent header supports such as read.table with header options. I don't want to mess up with text-processing or stream-processing. I am looking for a similar tool as in R because it saves a ...
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ScheduledTask output redirection [duplicate]
When a function is run repeatedly within a ScheduledTask its output is sent to Messages Window. When two or more ScheduledTasks are running their outputs are mixed in the Messages Window and this is ...
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How to read from /dev/random?
I am looking to read a few bytes from /dev/random on OS X and Linux. The simplest approach fails on both operating systems (see below).
Why? What is a workaround?...
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ToExpression fails with long nested string expressions
Consider the following conversion from String to Mathematica Expression:
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EndOfFile error
I have a LARGE file (14.6 GB) that I want to separate into several smaller files. Because of its size, using Import/Export is not feasible, I think the most reasonable way of handling this would be ...
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In a Function, how to Ensure Code Runs Prior to an Abort [duplicate]
Is there a way to set aside some code in a function that will be triggered to run if the evaluation of the function is aborted by a user? Specifically, I have a function that has to open a log file to ...
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How to export data to a plain text file?
I am preparing data used by a command line program. It requires data in a simpliest possible format:
value_x1 value_y1
value_x2 value_y2
...
value_xN value_yN
...
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How can I close a stream without knowing its name?
If I initialise a stream as follows
OpenWrite["~/example"]
How do I close this stream? Close seems to expect a name, but I ...
