> -Original Message-
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:40:24 -0500
> From: Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] converting tab-delimited text files to csv
> To: Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: tutor@python.org
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Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> csv is comma-separated values, right?
> you should be able to just do a string replace of tabs -> commas on each
> line in the new file...
> or is the csv format more complicated than that?
Yes, it is more complicated than that because the data itself may
contain comma
Switanek, Nick wrote:
> I have a long tab-delimited text file that I’d like to convert into csv
> format so I can read it into a statistics package.
Are you sure the statistics package can't read tab-delimited data
directly? For example in R you can use read.delim().
> Here’s what I’ve tried to
Switanek, Nick wrote:
>
> I have a long tab-delimited text file that I’d like to convert into
> csv format so I can read it into a statistics package.
>
> I’ve been using Excel to do the format conversion up till now, but now
> I have more rows than Excel can handle, and would like to avoid going
I have a long tab-delimited text file that I'd like to convert into csv
format so I can read it into a statistics package.
I've been using Excel to do the format conversion up till now, but now I
have more rows than Excel can handle, and would like to avoid going
through Excel if possible.
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