| sec : U Re: need a quicker way to read ascii file w/a structure [message #25352] |
Tue, 05 June 2001 18:20 |
Andrew Cool
Messages: 219
Registered: January 1996
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Mark Hadfield wrote:
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> From: "Lucas Miller" <differentiable@hotmail.com>
>> OK. I've got an ascii file laid out in columns with a string in the
>> first column, like this
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>> I don't want to use an
>> explicit format statement because the format varies....
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> That's a pity. If the widths of the fields were fixed then an explicit
> format would work.
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> Have you considered going to the person who generated the text files and
> suggesting she produce them with fixed widths. While you're at it, ask her
> why she couldn't have done that in the first place.
>
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> Mark Hadfield
Hey Mark, you'd better duck for cover! I can't see anything in Lucas'
post
that suggests a female designed the format of the data file, and yet
you've
jumped in with both feet, using "she" and "her"... ;-)
Got a disguise in your top drawer? Groucho Marx glasses with moustache?
Andrew
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