Re: [R] Pulling strings from a Flat file

2011-04-06 Thread Bill.Venables
Isn't all you need read.fwf? From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Kalicin, Sarah [sarah.kali...@intel.com] Sent: 06 April 2011 09:48 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Pulling strings from a Flat file H

Re: [R] Pulling strings from a Flat file

2011-04-05 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 5, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Kalicin, Sarah wrote: Hi, I have a flat file that contains a bunch of strings that look like this. The file was originally in Unix and brought over into Windows: E123456E234567E345678E456789E567891E678910E. . . . Basically the string starts with E and is followe

[R] Pulling strings from a Flat file

2011-04-05 Thread Kalicin, Sarah
Hi, I have a flat file that contains a bunch of strings that look like this. The file was originally in Unix and brought over into Windows: E123456E234567E345678E456789E567891E678910E. . . . Basically the string starts with E and is followed with 6 numbers. One string=E123456, length=7 characte