Try this:

read.table(textConnection(gsub("([0-9]+)", ";\\1;", x)), sep = ";")

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Lauri Nikkinen <lauri.nikkinen@iki.fi>wrote:

> Thanks Petr, I tried something like this
>
> > con <- file("C:temppi.txt", "r", blocking = FALSE)
> > g <- readLines(con)
> > close(con)
> >
> > sta <- c(1, 3, 5, 19)
> > sto <- c(2, 4, 18, 100)
> > do.call("rbind", lapply(g, function(x) substring(x, sta, sto)))
>     [,1] [,2] [,3]             [,4]
> [1,] "DF" "12" " This is an ex" "ample 1 This"
> [2,] "DF" "12" " This is an 12" "32 This is"
> [3,] "DF" "14" " This is 12334" " This is an "
> [4,] "DF" "15" " This 23 This " "is an example"
> >
>
> But this is not the solution I was looking for. Thanks.
>
> -L
>
> 2009/9/8 Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal@precheza.cz>:
> > Hi
> >
> > what about reading each line by readLine and then split it to desired
> > portions?
> >
> > x<-paste(letters, collapse="")
> > substring(x, c(1,3,5),c(2,4,15))
> >
> > Regards
> > Petr
> >
> >
> > r-help-bounces@r-project.org napsal dne 08.09.2009 14:21:53:
> >
> >> This data is from database and the maximum length of a field is
> >> defined. I mean that every column has a maximum length and I want to
> >> use this maximum length as a separator. So if one "cell" in that
> >> column is shorter than the maximum, "cell" should be padded with white
> >> spaces or something like that. This seems to be hard to explain.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> L
> >>
> >> 2009/9/8 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>:
> >> > On 9/8/2009 8:07 AM, Lauri Nikkinen wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks, I tried it but I got
> >> >>
> >> >>> varlength <- c(2, 2, 18, 5, 18)
> >> >>> read.fwf("c:temppi.txt", widths=varlength)
> >> >>
> >> >>  V1 V2                 V3    V4   V5
> >> >> 1 DF 12  This is an exampl e 1 T  his
> >> >> 2 DF 12  This is an 1232 T his i    s
> >> >> 3 DF 14  This is 12334 Thi s is   an
> >> >> 4 DF 15  This 23 This is a n exa mple
> >> >>
> >> >> Which is not the way I want it.
> >> >
> >> > It looks as though that's because you don't have fixed width data.  "
> > This
> >> > is an example" is 19 chars, including the leading space.  You told R
> > it was
> >> > 18.  " This is an " is only 12 characters.
> >> >
> >> > I would say you have two fixed width fields, and three varying fields,
> > with
> >> > no delimiters.  If the middle one of the three always contains digits
> > and
> >> > the others don't, you can probably extract them using sub(), but you
> > can't
> >> > use any of the read.* functions to do this:  your format is too
> > strange.
> >> >
> >> > Duncan Murdoch
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> structure(list(V1 = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = "DF", class
> >> >> = "factor"),
> >> >>    V2 = c(12L, 12L, 14L, 15L), V3 = structure(c(4L, 3L, 2L,
> >> >>    1L), .Label = c(" This 23 This is a", " This is 12334 Thi",
> >> >>    " This is an 1232 T", " This is an exampl"), class = "factor"),
> >> >>    V4 = structure(c(1L, 2L, 4L, 3L), .Label = c("e 1 T", "his i",
> >> >>    "n exa", "s is "), class = "factor"), V5 = structure(c(2L,
> >> >>    4L, 1L, 3L), .Label = c("an ", "his", "mple", "s"), class =
> >> >> "factor")), .Names = c("V1",
> >> >> "V2", "V3", "V4", "V5"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
> >> >> -4L))
> >> >>
> >> >> Any ideas?
> >> >> -L
> >> >>
> >> >> 2009/9/8 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On 9/8/2009 7:53 AM, Lauri Nikkinen wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I have a text file similar to this (separated by spaces):
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> x <- "DF12 This is an example 1 This
> >> >>>> DF12 This is an 1232 This is
> >> >>>> DF14 This is 12334 This is an
> >> >>>> DF15 This 23 This is an example
> >> >>>> "
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> and I know the field lengths of each variable (there is 5 variables
> > in
> >> >>>> this data set), which are:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> varlength <- c(2, 2, 18, 5, 18)
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> How can I import this kind of data into R, using the varlength
> >> >>>> variable as an field separator indicator?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> See ?read.fwf.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Duncan Murdoch
> >> >>>
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
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