Parse Data-File And Do Some Maths

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        A FAST way to proceed tabular data from a textfile. Also, do some statistics with tcl-math class. The data-file must look like this:

1	-62805
2	-62468
3	-62351
4	-62408
5	-62256
6	-62473
7	-62759
8	-62768

#!/usr/bin/tclsh
#
# fileio.tcl
# 
# A FAST way to proceed tabular data from a textfile
# Also, do some statistics with tcl-math class. The
# data-file must look like this:
#
# 1	-62805
# 2	-62468
# 3	-62351
# 4	-62408
# 5	-62256
# 6	-62473
# 7	-62759
# 8	-62768
# 

package require Tcl 8.4
package require textutil
package require math::statistics

namespace import ::textutil::*
namespace import ::math::statistics::*

set filename "data.dat"
puts "Reading file $filename"

if [catch {open $filename RDONLY} f] {
	puts $f 
} else {
	while {1} {
		gets $f line
		if [eof $f] break
		set vdata  [ splitx $line "\t"]
		lappend x [ lindex $vdata 0]
		lappend y [ lindex $vdata 1]
	}
  close $f
}

puts "Lines read:"
puts [llength $x] 
puts "Calculating statistics"

# Uncomment here to print the columns to screen.
# foreach does a good job, here.
#puts "\nx-column:"
#foreach dx $x { puts $dx }
#puts "\ny-column:"
#foreach dy $y { puts $dy }

set meany [mean $y]
set vary [var $y]
set stdevy [stdev $y]

puts "Mean y: $meany, Var x: $vary, StDev x: $stdevy"

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