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Legacy Documentation
Mathematica 8
(2010)
This is documentation for Mathematica 8, which was
based on an earlier version of Wolfram Language.
View current documentation (Version 14.3)
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Reading and Writing Mathematica Files
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$Failed
$Failed
is a special symbol returned by certain functions when they cannot do what they were asked to do.
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returns
$Failed
when it cannot find the file or other object that was specified.
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Opening a non-existing file is an operation that returns
$Failed
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Opening a non-existing file is an operation that returns
$Failed
:
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