FILUM
File Utilities

FILUM is a set of MATHEMATICA routines for working with information in text files.

Package Installation:

In order for the package to be accessible, the package file must be placed in the appropriate place. A typical place is the "Applications" subdirectory of the "User Base Directory". These are directories set up by Mathematica. You can find out where the User Base Directory is by the Mathematica command:

        $UserBaseDirectory
      

Once the new package has been placed, you should probably run Mathematica and direct it to rebuild the Help database. This will serve to update Mathematica's internal information so that it can explain how the functions in the package are called.

Related Data and Programs:

FILUM is also available in a C++ version, a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

Reference:

1. Paul Bratley, Bennett Fox, Linus Schrage,
   A Guide to Simulation,
   Springer Verlag, pages 201-202, 1983.
2. Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington,
   "8.6: Picking a Random Line from a File",
   Perl Cookbook, pages 284-285,
   O'Reilly, 1999.
3. Pierre LEcuyer,
   Random Number Generation,
   in Handbook of Simulation,
   edited by Jerry Banks,
   Wiley Interscience, page 95, 1998.
4. Bennett Fox,
   Algorithm 647: Implementation and Relative Efficiency of Quasirandom Sequence Generators,
   ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
   Volume 12, Number 4, pages 362-376, 1986.
5. Philip Lewis, Allen Goodman, James Miller,
   A Pseudo-Random Number Generator for the System/360,
   IBM Systems Journal,
   Volume 8, pages 136-143, 1969.

Source Code:

• Filum.m, the package;

Examples and Tests:

• filum_use.nb, a notebook that tests the routines;

List of Routines:

• FileNameDec decrements a partially numeric filename.
• FileNameInc increments a partially numeric filename.

You can go up one level to the Mathematica source codes.