[kepler-dev] Txt File with Kepler

[subhav mital]

Thanks.
I've tried ReadTable. It did not help or maybe I am not using it correctly.
Probably I'll have to go ahead and create a new actor to extract values if
nothing else comes up.

Thank you for your help.



On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Christopher Brooks
<cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Try using two StringReplace actors to replace the text before and after
> the field in which you are interested.
> It would be nice to have an actor that would read tab separated file.
>
> Dan Higgens made a presentation about reading data, see
>
> http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/attach?page=SEEKPostdoctoralAndNewFacultyTrainingJanuary8122007%2FUsing_Desktop_Data_in_Kepler.ppt
> It looks like the Kepler ReadTable actor might be worth a look.
> ReadTable apparently uses R.  I've not used it, so I'm not sure
> if it would work.
>
> _Christopher
>
> subhav mital wrote:
>
>> Thanks for that.
>>
>> I'll be more specific.
>>
>> The file.txt (An excel file saved as a text file and hence tab delimited)
>> contains the following:
>>
>> Number      Location                              Author
>> 1                C:\Users\Desktop\.....            XYZ
>> 2                C:\Folder\Kepler\.....              ABC
>>
>> Now the file reader reads the entire content of this file. However I want
>> to read only the Location column and extract the values within that column.
>>
>> Hence, I would want to extract C:\Users\Desktop\..... and in another run
>> extract C:\Folder\Kepler\..... and then use this extracted content (here to
>> open another file specified in the location) ahead.
>>
>> So basically, it boils down to extracting information of a particular cell
>> within a particular column in a tab delimited text file.
>>
>> Could you please suggest anything ?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Christopher Brooks <
>> cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu <mailto:cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi Subhav,
>>    See
>>
>> http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptIIfaq.htm#reading%20data%20from%20files
>> ?
>>
>>    ptolemy.actor.lib.io.FileReader has a PortParameter that takes file or
>>    URL.  What you would need to do is read in the file names as per the
>>    above URL and then pass the individual file name to FileReader.
>>
>>    _Christopher
>>
>>    subhav mital wrote:
>>
>>        Hello,
>>
>>        Consider I have a text file of 1 column and n rows. Each of the
>>        n rows have a location specified of a file. (Eg:
>>        C:\...\..\file.txt) Can this file be given to kepler, so that it
>>        somehow reads the data (here location of the file name) in those
>>        rows and opens the file specified for each row?
>>
>>        Please give some suggestions for this.
>>
>>        Thank you!
>>
>>
>>
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