How to Manipulate List Elements in Mathematica?

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This discussion focuses on manipulating list elements in Mathematica version 6. The user successfully reads data from a text file using the command ReadList["where_the_file_is_located/Data.txt", {Number, Number}] and plots it with ListPlot. The main challenge addressed is how to manipulate individual members of the list, specifically multiplying all x-values (the first "Number") by a specified factor. The solution provided is to use list[[All, 2]] to access all second elements of the list.

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How to do this in Mathematica??

Hi - I am an engineering student who is quite new to Mathematica (v. 6) but I really enjoy it. Lots of examples, easy to just play and figure out how to do something for yourself. Makes beautiful output. However, I have not been able to figure this out...
I am using another program (COMSOL) which will export values from a graph as a text file - eg "Data.txt". I use list1 = ReadList["where_the_file_is_located/Data.txt", {Number, Number}] to read the date into a list. Then I use ListPlot[{list1}, PlotRange -> {0, as_big_as_I_need}] and it plots very nicely.
However, I cannot figure out how to manipulate individual members in my list (i.e. multiply all the x-values [the first "Number"] by something. How can I manipulate all the first or the second "Number(s)" in a list like this?

Thanks!
 
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list[[All,2]] would give a list of all of the second elements
 


Perfect thanks!
 

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