Sorry if this is overly basic question, but I searched around the documentation and the user group questions and have not been able to find an answer. I wondering if there was a way in Julia to read from a formatted text file, in the same way as matlab's textscan function:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/textscan.html readdlm does not seem to do what I am looking for (or maybe I'm using it wrong!). Suppose I have data coming from a bed file, which is formatted like this: chr1 500 34543 1.433 chr1 46546 3543 4.68 chr2 4543 34456 6.3545 It would be nice to specify the format "chr%u %u %u %f" and to get four vectors (three with Ints and one with floats): [1,1,2] [500,46546,4543] [34543,3543,34456] [1.433,4.68,6.3545] Is there a function to do this? If not, is there a simple way to do this with the functions that are available? Thanks! Garrett P.S. I know that @printf basically allows the opposite of this to be done (i.e., to write out to a file by specifying a format). Basically, my question is if there exists the equivalent @readf to read in something that was produced by @printf?
