[R] help reading a variably formatted text file

[Jason Turner]

This looks possible in R, and your algorithm looks precise enough.
The help pages for file, readLines, and scan should cast some
light.

For jobs like this I tend to use Perl, however.  Familiarity
is one reason:  I'm more comfortable with Perl for scanning/parsing 
files.  Also, Perl was originally written for exactly this sort of
thing.

Cheers

Jason
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