General ⇒ Including a value from a file

[Badders]

So i have a script that does some simulations then saves out a number to a file (as well as some figures and other things), and i want to be able to include the number in the text of my latex document without changing it by hand every time the script is run.

At the moment the best solution i have is to use the verbatim input module.

However, this always puts the file on a newline, whereas ideally i would like to just to include the text value at the current position, without any formatting etc.

So at the moment i do:

Value of result: \VerbatimInput{file.txt} more text here

Which gives:

Value of result:
182.45
more text here

Whereas i would ideally like:
Value of result: 182.45 more text here

I have searched around for an answer to this and all i can seem to find is solutions for when the result is calculated in latex, rather than just included as an external text file.

Thanks

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

you can change the script, right? Easiest solution seems to be to write your special value to a file mySpecialValue.tex which just has the value.

In you text you can get the special value using \input{mySpecialValue}.

[Badders]

I just tried that, it gives an even worse result, it page breaks before the included file

Any ideas what else to try? im at a loss?

Thanks

[Johannes_B]

That simply cannot (shouldn't) happen. Can you try to make a minimal working example, that shows the behaviour?
The input-solution is the simplest and least error prone way.

[Badders]

Yeah my mistake, i did \include not \input, im very tired

Your solution worked perfectly, thanks very much!