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SemanticImport—Wolfram Language Documentation

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BUILT-IN SYMBOL

SemanticImport[file,type]

attempts to interpret all elements in the file as being of the specified type.

SemanticImport[file,{type1,type2,}]

attempts to interpret elements in successive columns as being of the specified types.

SemanticImport[file,col1->type1,col2->type2,]

keeps only the columns coli specified by their positions or names.

SemanticImport[file,typespec,form]

puts the result in the specified form.

Details and Options Examplesopen allclose all Basic Examples  (7)

Import a file, automatically detecting and interpreting dates and cities:

Columns shown in bold correspond to semantic objects in the Wolfram Language:

Import a file with the specified column types:

Import only some columns of a file, in the specified format, using column numbers:

Import only some columns of a file, in the specified format, using column names:

Import only some columns, specifying None for columns that should be dropped:

Import a file as a list of rows:

Import a file as a list of columns:

Scope  (3)

Import a file using a given character encoding:

Import a file using the given delimiter:

Specify that the first line of the file to import is a header:

Specify that the first and fifth lines of a file should be skipped:

Return missing values with the form "Unknown" in the special form Missing["UnknownData"]:

Options  (7)

SemanticImport uses many of the same options as SemanticImportString. See SemanticImportString for more examples.

CharacterEncoding  (1)

The wrong character encoding can derail a good interpretation. Create a file of Unicode-encoded data:

Import the data using the default character encoding:

Import the data, specifying that it is encoded as Unicode:

Delimiters  (1)

Specifying the delimiter determines how the values are separated:

Specifying a nonexistent delimiter gives a single column of newline-separated items:

ExcludedLines  (1)

Lines are excluded by row number prior to header selection or further processing. Here is raw data:

Excluding even line numbers gives the odd-ranked buildings, since the header line puts odd ranks on even lines:

HeaderLines  (1)

Specify the number of lines in the file to treat as a header:

MissingDataRules  (2)

Replace strings that start with "Sears" by "Willis Tower":

Rules are applied before interpretation:

Applications  (6)

Import a table containing the flight cost from London to many countries as a Dataset object:

Get the geographic position of London:

Get the maximum price of a flight:

Make a map showing the least expensive flight routes in blue and the most expensive ones in orange:

Import the data for a timeline of personal emails:

Get the values that are in the "family" category:

Plot email count per month:

Import the first and third columns from a table of salaries for college faculty members:

Plot the result:

Import a dataset consisting of dates and numeric values as a Dataset object:

Obtain the data as a list of rows:

Specify that dates should be interpreted as strings:

Import a dataset containing a list of famous buildings and their properties as a Dataset object. Cities and countries are automatically detected as Entity objects:

Import only the Name, Country, and Height columns of the famous building dataset:

Possible Issues  (3)

Automatic selection chooses from a less rich set of types than Interpreter:

Specify explicit types to import Entity objects rather than strings:

An Automatic type specifies an automatically selected number of columns:

An {Automatic} type specifies a single column of automatically selected type:

Automatic in a type list applies to the corresponding column sequentially:

The default Automatic selection of header lines can be incorrect, depending on whether data is organized in rows or columns:

Specify the number of header lines explicitly to import the data correctly:

Wolfram Research (2014), SemanticImport, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SemanticImport.html (updated 2016). Text

Wolfram Research (2014), SemanticImport, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SemanticImport.html (updated 2016).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "SemanticImport." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2016. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SemanticImport.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2014). SemanticImport. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SemanticImport.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_semanticimport, author="Wolfram Research", title="{SemanticImport}", year="2016", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SemanticImport.html}", note=[Accessed: 12-July-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_semanticimport, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={SemanticImport}, year={2016}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SemanticImport.html}, note=[Accessed: 12-July-2025 ]}


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