Reading Textual Data (Mathematica Tutorial)

With <<, you can read files that contain Mathematica expressions given in input form. Sometimes, however, you may instead need to read files of data in other formats. For ...

NB (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

Registered MIME types: application/mathematica, application/vnd.wolfram.mathematica Mathematica notebooks. Used for storing and exchanging Mathematica input and output and ...

SP3 (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

SP3 geospatial file format. National Geodetic Survey standard format. Stores information about the orbits of GPS satellites. SP3 is an acronym derived from Standard Product ...

DepthFirstScan (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DepthFirstScan[g, s, {"event_1" -> f_1, "event_2" -> f_2, ...}] performs a depth-first scan of the graph g starting at the vertex s and evaluates f_i whenever "event_i" ...

EdgeRules (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EdgeRules[g] gives the list of edge rules for the graph g.

Date and Time Functions (Mathematica Tutorial)

Finding the date and time. This gives the current date and time. The Mathematica DateList function returns whatever your computer system gives as the current date and time. ...

MapThread (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MapThread[f, {{a_1, a_2, ...}, {b_1, b_2, ...}, ...}] gives {f[a_1, b_1, ...], f[a_2, b_2, ...], ...}. MapThread[f, {expr_1, expr_2, ...}, n] applies f to the parts of the ...

HistogramList (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

HistogramList[{x_1, x_2, ...}] gives a list of bins and histogram heights of the values x_i.HistogramList[{{x_1, y_1, ...}, {x_2, y_2, ...}, ...}] gives a list of bins and ...

Operations on Strings (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica provides a variety of functions for manipulating strings. Most of these functions are based on viewing strings as a sequence of characters, and many of the ...

Picking Out Pieces of Algebraic ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Functions to pick out pieces of polynomials. Here is an algebraic expression. This gives the coefficient of x in e.