Read (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Read[stream] reads one expression from an input stream and returns the expression. Read[stream, type] reads one object of the specified type. Read[stream, {type_1, type_2, ...

Graphics Transformations (Mathematica Guide)

New in 8.0: Computable Data (Mathematica Guide)

In addition to the existing datasets that have been updated, Mathematica 8 now exposes the curated knowledge databases available from Wolfram|Alpha.

Work with Nested Lists (Mathematica How To)

Nested lists are lists within a list; they are the principal structure for data in Mathematica and allow for high-dimension arrays and ragged datasets as well as common uses ...

$LicenseServer (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$LicenseServer is a string that gives the name of the license server that is currently authorizing Mathematica to be run.

$OperatingSystem (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$OperatingSystem is a string giving the type of operating system under which Mathematica is being run.

Equations (Mathematica Tutorial)

"Defining Variables" discussed assignments such as x=y which set x equal to y. Here we discuss equations, which test equality. The equation x==y tests whether x is equal to ...

Java Exception Handling (JLink Guide)

GetJavaException -- get the exception object thrown in the most recent Java call, JavaThrow -- throw a Java exception, $JavaExceptionHandler -- how Java exceptions are ...

Reference (Library Link Tutorial)

Wolfram LibraryLink allows dynamic libraries to be directly loaded into the Mathematica kernel so that functions in the libraries can be immediately called from Mathematica. ...

OpenCLLink Programming (OpenCLLink Tutorial)

Programming OpenCL in Mathematica is simple since the user need not write C wrapper code—which can be quite verbose, difficult to understand, and hard to debug. Using ...