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[lorna nayagam]

Hello gradsusers,

I have a text file containing 600 values in a file
data.txt. the contents of the file is like (single
column, 600 lines)

300.992
299.981
289.237
.......
.......
.......


I want to read the lines from the text file and assign
them as follows.
x1=300.992
x2=299.981
..........
x600=.....


can anybody help me? how to do this? i want to take
them after calling x1, x2, ..... and do calculations.
Kindly give a suggestion.
thanks,
lorna

Ms. Lorna R. Nayagam,
Junior Research Fellow,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
Cochin University of Science and Technology,
Finearts Avenue, Cochin 682016




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