Importing and Exporting—Wolfram Documentation (original) (raw)

Functions
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- Importing and Analyzing Data
- Functions
  * BaseDecode
  * BaseEncode
  * BinaryDeserialize
  * BinaryReadList
  * BinarySerialize
  * BinaryWrite
  * ByteArrayFormat
  * ByteArrayFormatQ
  * CloudExport
  * CloudImport
  * CopyFile
  * CopyToClipboard
  * CreateArchive
  * DataConnectionObject
  * DeleteFile
  * DeleteMissing
  * Export
  * ExportByteArray
  * ExportString
  * ExtractArchive
  * FileConvert
  * FileFormat
  * FileFormatProperties
  * FileFormatQ
  * FileNames
  * FileNameToFormatList
  * Import
  * ImportByteArray
  * ImportedObject
  * ImportString
  * MIMETypeToFormatList
  * Missing
  * NotebookImport
  * Paste
  * ReadByteArray
  * ReadList
  * RenameFile
  * SendMail
  * SendMessage
  * SetFileFormatProperties
  * StringFormat
  * StringFormatQ
  * URLExecute
  * WebExecute
  * WebImage
  * Write
- Related Guides
  * Listing of All Formats
  * File Operations
  * Free-Form & External Input
  * Setting Up Input Interpreters
  * WSTP
  * API
  * Geographic Data
  * Financial & Economic Data
  * Using the Wolfram Data Drop
- Tech Notes
  * Importing and Exporting Data
  * Importing Graphics and Sounds
  * Exporting Graphics and Sounds
  * Importing and Exporting Files
  * Streams and Low‐Level Input and Output
  * Developing an Import Converter
  * Developing an Export Converter
  * Automatic Loading of Import and Export Converters
- Related Workflow Guides
  * Importing and Analyzing Data

The Wolfram Language automatically handles hundreds of data formats and subformats—all coherently integrated through the Wolfram Language's uniform use of symbolic expressions. For each particular format, the correspondence between representations inside and outside the Wolfram Language can be specified at any level of detail using the Wolfram Language's general data elements mechanism.

Import — import from files and URLs

Export — export data, graphics, and expressions to files

ImportString, ExportString — import, export string data

ImportByteArray, ExportByteArray — import, export binary data

$ImportFormats, $ExportFormats — lists of supported formats

FileFormat, FileFormatQ — try to determine the format of a file

StringFormat ▪ StringFormatQ ▪ ByteArrayFormat ▪ ByteArrayFormatQ

FileFormatProperties ▪ SetFileFormatProperties ▪ FileNameToFormatList ▪ MIMETypeToFormatList

DataConnectionObject — connection to data stores (Amazon S3, Azure blobs, Dropbox, etc.)

NotebookImport — import specified elements from a notebook

SendMail ▪ SendMessage ▪ CopyToClipboard ▪ Paste

CreateArchive, ExtractArchive — create, extract compressed file archives