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BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL
<<name
reads in a file, evaluating each expression in it and returning the last one.
Get[stream]
reads from a stream, evaluating each expression in it and returning the last one.
Details and Options
- If name is the name of a Mathematica context, ending with a
context mark character, then Get will process this name to find the file to read. - If name is the name of a file, any
extension must be included explicitly. - Get can read
files of Mathematica definitions written by DumpSave. - Get can read
notebook files, returning the Mathematica expressions they represent. 
is equivalent to <<name. The double quotes can be omitted if the name is of the form specified in "Operator Input Forms". - If a file with name file.mx is found to be a directory, Get will look for a file with a name like file.mx/$SystemID/file.mx.
- If the file found by <<name is a directory, Mathematica will try to load the file
in that directory. - Get by default successively searches for files in the directories specified by the elements of $Path.
- Get[name, Path->{"dir1", "dir2", ...}] successively searches for files in each of the
. - Syntax errors in Mathematica input files are reported in the standard form:
. Get continues attempting to read a file even after a syntax error has been detected. However, if an error is detected, $Context and $ContextPath are reset to the values they had when Get was called. - During the execution of Get, the global variables $Input and $InputFileName are set to the file name and the full path of the file being read, respectively.
- Get["file", "key"] reads a file that has been encoded using Encode["source", "file", "key"].
- With the Method option, the stream is opened using the given input stream method. This overrides the default way that Get resolves file names.
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