Read ?scan very carefully and play with the settings.  What makes your file
difficult is that it is multi line, meaning that the headings have carriage
returns between them instead of being one line separated with spaces or tabs
or commas.  Can you change the way the file is outputted?  If not, you will
have to play with scan to get the file in.  Anything is possible, but it
looks like it will be tricky.

HTH,
Roger



On 1/19/06, Stefan Semmeling <trittihn@web.de> wrote:
>
> hallo,
>
> i have a problem reading in the above mentioned kind of a file.
> does anybody know an easy way how to read it in?
> i can save it as a text file that looks like:
>
> Datum des Fixings
> Restlaufzeit
>
>
> 1 Jahr
> 2 Jahre
> 3 Jahre
> 4 Jahre
> 5 Jahre
> 6 Jahre
> 7 Jahre
> 8 Jahre
> 9 Jahre
> 10 Jahre
> 12 Jahre
> 15 Jahre
> 13.01.06
> 2.819
> 2.983
> 3.073
> 3.137
> 3.194
> 3.247
> 3.302
> 3.355
> 3.409
> 3.459
> 3.548
> 3.649
> 12.01.06
> 2.847
> 3.013
> 3.102
> 3.164
> 3.217
> 3.268
> 3.322
> 3.373
> 3.426
> 3.475
> 3.564
> 3.665
> ...
>
> after skipping the first four lines i want to read it in while the first
> 12
> lines are the heades
> the next is the date followed by the singel values...(these lines are
> always
> repeated)
>
> it is supposed to look like
>
>          1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    12    15
> datum1    a    b    c    d    e    f    g    h    i    j         k      l
> datum2    a    b    c    d    e    f    g    h    i    j     k      l
> ...
>
> i tried to read it in as a normal excel file but it didn´t work out the
> way
> it was supposed to
>
> thank you for helping!!!
>
> stefan
>
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