Dear all, My question is concerning the line "This is adequate for small files, but for anything more complicated we recommend using the facilities of a language like perl to pre-process the file."
in the import/export manual. I have a large fixed-width file that I would like to preprocess in Perl or awk. The problem is that I do not know where to start. Does anyone have a simple example on how to turn a fixed-width file in any of these facilities into csv or tab delimited file. I guess I am looking for somewhat a perl for dummies or awk for dummies that does this. any pointers for website will be greatly appreciated Thank you Jean Eid ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
