[gradsusr] reading a CSV

[Bill Reilly]

Jeff:

You can try replacing all the commas with spaces first (using a text 
editor or command line function) and then you can use the subwrd() 
command like normal.

Bill

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On 9/3/2015 9:17 PM, Jeff Duda wrote:
> Is there a simple function in Grads to read text data from a csv file? 
> The intrinsic function read() offers an advantage for files with 
> spaces, making the subwrd() command particularly useful. However, when 
> there are no spaces, obtaining specific columns, especially when the 
> number of digits used to express the data is not the same between 
> different records, becomes quite tedious. There must be something that 
> already exists that's simpler than what I'm currently doing.
>
> Jeff Duda
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