Re: st: How to read in an irregular ASCII-file?

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

Barbara Hofmann wrote:

> Hello,
>
> hopefully someone of you can help me with the following:
>
> i want to read in a ascii-dataset of a structure like this:
>
> 104525300010   9064496 022    999929912
> 204525300010   9064496 1:19 59 22  2:4 0 96   3:8 0 92  4:0 33 67
> 204525300010   9064496            6:30 50 20  7:78 5 17
> 104525300010   9081400 023    23131122
>
>
> "2" in the first column means that this line belongs to the line 
> before. column 31-39 include replies to 9 different questions. if it 
> is a "9" this means, that in the following line there is a more 
> specific answer to this question which is stored like this:
[other problems omitted]

A text editor will help you here, by finding the sequence "<end of 
line>2" which you can simply replace with nothing. This will take all 
your continuation lines and put them on the line they continue.



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