Use the MpsReader class to read a LinearProgram from a file in MPS format. The format was named after an early linear programming system from IBM. It has since emerged as a de facto standard ASCII medium among most of the commercial linear programming systems.

The MpsReader class has one staticSharedstaticstatic (Shared in Visual Basic) method, Read(String), which is overloaded. The first method takes a string containing the path to an MPS file and returns a LinearProgram object that represents the linear program in the file. The second method does the same but gets its input from a StreamReader.

Several extensions of the MPS format have been defined over the years. The current implementation of MpsReader doesn't support these extensions. A FormatException is thrown when an unrecognized extension is found.

Numerical Libraries