Re: how to read one line from a datafile at a time?

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:19:51AM -0700, john n wrote:
> 
> How can I get PARI/GP to read one line from a datafile at a time, e.g. to
> assign to a specified variable?
> 
> I use
> 
> read(file)
> 
> and it simply prints out the last line in the file.
> 
> I need to be able to read the first line, assign it to e.g. a(1), then read
> the second line and assign it to a(2) and so on.

Hello,
You can use
a=readvec(file);
then 
a[1] is the value of the first line, a[2] the value of the second line, etc.

Cheers,
Bill.