NAME¶

tablefromascii - Convert an ASCII file to a table

SYNOPSIS¶

tablefromascii input [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION¶

This program converts an ASCII table to a table. It can only handle scalar columns. The separator between the fields in the ASCII file can be specified.

OPTIONS¶

-in [string]

Input ASCII file

-out [string]

Output table name

-headerfile [string]

Name of optional file containing headers

-autoheader [T|F]

Determine header automatically? (default: F)

-autoshape [string]

Shape if all columns are treated as one array

-columnnames [string]

Comma separated names of the columns

-datatypes [string]

Comma separated data types of the columns

-sep [string]

One character separator between values

-commentmarker [string]

Regex indicating comments

-firstline [int]

First line to process (default: 1)

-lastline [int]

Last line to process (<0 is till end; default: -1)

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Ole Streicher with information from the source code.