FILUM
File Utilities

FILUM is a MATHEMATICA library which handles 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
Then you need to copy the package file to the "Applications" subdirectory of that directory.

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.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

FILUM is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version and a Mathematica 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:

Examples and Tests:

List of Routines:

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

Last revised on 06 January 2006.