Reading Tab delimited input files

[jonathan_downes]

Hi,

Am trying to read some TAB delimited input files (originally came from Excel) into a simple console based program without much luck. Searching the Forums here and the wider internet has not found anything, so any help as how to read the TAB characters would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jon

[greldak]

just read the file intocharacter variables and parse them, creating a new variable, line, element (whatever is appropriate) whenever you find a TAB character that is CHR(9)

[jonathan_downes]

Many thanks

Regards

Jon

[r_robinson]

I thinka free format read will interpret tabs as spaces, at least for numeric data.

For example:

read(1,*) a, b, c

where the file contains "10.020.030.0" where the separators are tabs, not spaces.

You might want to experiment that this works in your case.