Importing ASCII datafiles
This filter imports data from ordinary textfiles, which means that an
korigin worksheet will be created. This will be probably the
most important case. Textfiles include data in multiple columns and rows.
No blank rows are allowed and columns can be separated by either tabs or
spaces. Columns can have titles which are then displayed as column titles in
the worksheet. Lots of options are available with this filter:
Here you can define the import style.
- Skip a file header (no data) of a predefined number of rows.
- Read only data between defined labels. With this option multiple
sections of huge data files can be read into different worksheets.
- Read the whole file. No commentary at all is allowed.
- Also read the whole file, but reject commentary lines. These are lines
- beginning with a "#".
In this tab you can define if wheather there are column titles within the
ASCII file or not. These titles are always searched within the data segment
(after the skipped header, within Start and Endlabel). If Checking is enabled
the first dataline will be checked for values or strings. So, of course when
you use this option no string columns are allowed (shit happens otherwise).
Default file filter is "*.dat", but can also be modified within the
importoptions dialogs.
Martin Häfner
Last modified: Fri Jan 30 11:16:10 MET 1998