Lauri, Having looked at your example file, and examined its byte-by-byte content, it is a plain ASCII file which gives exactly the same layout as you originally posted. This, along with the field-width information you originally supplied, is not sufficient to determine a unique dcomposition into fields. See my previous reply!
I think I have to go along with Barry here: In my view, no further progress is possible without seeing an excerpt (the first few lines, or a few lines that cause the problem), from the *original* file. Even then, no further progress may be possible! And, just to make sure of things, do not use a "copy & paste" method of extracting the sample lines -- as Barry points out, it is possible for a tab to get copied as a space. So the best way is to make a copy of the original file, and use a test editor to delete unwanted lines from the copy, so that the bytes in the sample file are a subset of the bytes from the original, and not something they have been translated into. And, by the way, what operating system are you using? Ted. On 08-Sep-09 15:47:55, Lauri Nikkinen wrote: > This is the file (see the attachment) that represents the problem I'm > facing with the original file. I'm looking for some generic way to > solve this problem. Thank you for your time. > > -L > > 2009/9/8 Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>: >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Lauri Nikkinen<lauri.nikki...@iki.fi> >> wrote: >> >>> But this is not the solution I was looking for. Thanks. >> >> _I think the only way you'll get the solution you are looking for is >> if you can let us have a copy of the original input file, or at least >> the first few lines - and not pasted into an email because special >> characters like spaces and tabs get smushed up and confuse things. >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Sep-09 Time: 17:12:12 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
