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Can Mathematica edit large binary files in-place?
We can do it straightforward in Java using JLink:
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How to read a named pipe on Windows?
Short Version
On Windows, unlike Unix, named pipes are special and do not behave like regular stdio streams. Programs that use named pipes require custom logic. As a rule the Wolfram Language I/O ...
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Is there a way to create ZIP OutputStream ?
As mentioned already it's easy to implement this functionality with JLink.
But once you use Java's ZipOtputStream you will need to convert your data to list of ...
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Is building an event-based parser possible/reasonable in Mathematica (WL)?
Note:
If you want this type of parser added for JSON, I think WRI could do it easily. They already have Developer`ReadRawJSONStream so I think adding some event-...
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Reading from a socket stream
I was playing around SocketLink too. (And tried implementing a "pure" Mathematica server too!). About the OP's question, on my Windows 8.1 64bit, Doing more ...
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how do I to create a function similar to feof in C?
Your ideas are too C-oriented. The Wolfram Language is not at all like C despite some syntactic sugar built into it to make some constructs C-like; In my opinion, these features more often lead ...
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Can Read[] apply a custom function automatically to the read values?
Yes! This is documented under Details:
You can use Read to get objects to insert into any expression structure, not necessarily a list. Example: ...
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Can Mathematica edit large binary files in-place?
I have noticed that NETLink does not get a lot of love on this site (at least not as much as JLink does), so let me just post ...
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Reading from a socket stream
Beginning with Mathematica 10 there is a new function ReadString
to get the (current) available data from an open socket connection by setting ...
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Stream CSV or TSV files
Summary
This is generalized piece of code for reading FAST rows terminated with a newline from a CSV or TSV text stream with UTF8 encoding.
You may specify options for the filetype, the starting and ...
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How to pipe a stream to another notebook?
Here's a way that allows you to actually redirect output to a notebook by using the newish DefineStreamOutputMethod function (which dates to 9.0). It's a bit hacky ...
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Is there a way to create ZIP OutputStream ?
Neither the import format ZIP (nor any of those similar to it like GZIP, TAR or BZIP) nor the function CreateArchive do have any documented functionality which ...
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Vector field Stream?
Here are the streamlines using the centers of the arrows in the vector plot as initial conditions:
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SliceStreamPlot3D or StreamPlot3D
Obviously, my earlier first suggestion is exactly what SliceVectorPlot3D does, a function I was not aware of. Therefore, here is my suggestion how to convert 2d <...
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Opening a pipe with OpenRead
Use sockets. For example, set up a listening connection in shell with
nc -l 2222
Then in Mathematica
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Read not advancing StreamPosition
Having written it up, I might as well answer having double-checked my thinking before posting, just in case I was about to make a fool of myself...
The problem lies on this line:
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Matrix Vector multiplication for very big matrices (>>RAM)
You may use ParallelTable and other functions from the Parallel Computation Setup & Configuration guide.
With
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How do I reliably read from stdin using wolframscript?
The implementation of $ScriptInputString in wolframscript is buggy. I have found that providing ...
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How to read doubles from specific location of a large file
Make sure you use the right format for you floating point reals. E.g. with "Real64", where every number take 8 Bytes, we can write 3 numbers and then jump to the second number by:
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Memory preserving computation in chunks
In general, a good strategy to free memory when no longer needed is to give the variables a local scope. However, when applying this too finely grained, this may cause many costly allocations and ...
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Plotting phase plane in Filippov systems
This should be more straightforward with my EcoEvo package.
First, install package (once ever):
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How can I dynamically display a stream position?
To not prompt Dynamic each second or something, let's create useless variable that will prompt it.
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What is the fastest way to read the new lines in the dynamically updatable file?
Wolfram Support Answer
The input stream is "buffered" by C, which is to say the file's data is read into memory when the stream is opened. Then all "read" operations work on the buffered data in ...
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Can Mathematica edit large binary files in-place?
Mathematica is not a great tool to edit large files; the documentation essentially admits this. The obvious answer is to work in another language; I use Java, where it would be trivial to read a file ...
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How to read *all* input from stdin?
I am not aware of any pure Mathematica solution. The usual way is to read from the stream
stream = OpenRead["!cat"]
You can do this directly with any read ...
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`ReadString` and `StreamPosition` behaving strangely with custom terminators
This is for the moment an incomplete answer, but I gathered lots of insight by using
<<GeneralUtilities`
PrintDefinitions[ReadString]
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Parsing tab delimited file
Once you have your data in the form of a string, Mathematica has very powerful string operations that can parse the data.
I am not claiming that this is the most efficient method but it will work ...
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How to output an expression to an external file in "plain text" format without breaking lines?
I can't get Alexey's solution to work on Mathematica 10, so I use this custom function to output simple strings in lieu of PutAppend:
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How to get the standard error stream for a ProcessObject?
Use ProcessConnection.
process = StartProcess[$SystemShell]
ProcessConnection[process, "StandardError"]
This returns an <...
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