Many thanks, works perfectly. I see the question was asked before; I did do 
a search but I guess my criteria were poor. Might be a good entry in the 
help docs.

On Tuesday, 16 August 2016 08:10:10 UTC-4, Tamas Papp wrote:
>
> readtable(IOBuffer(string)) 
>
> On Tue, Aug 16 2016, Colin Beckingham wrote: 
>
> > I'm trying to follow the examples in the DataFrame docs explaining the 
> > ability to use a " csv"""...""" " format to import data from a string. 
> > My data already exist in a string variable, but I am having a problem 
> > expanding the string inside the "csv""" """ " expression. 
> > I can write the string into a file and read the file into the df with 
> > readtable(), but clearly this is wasteful unless there are other reasons 
> to 
> > have the raw data handy. 
> > Is it possible to expand the contents of the string variable inside the 
> > triple quotes? 
>
>

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