[Numpy-discussion] More loadtxt() changes

[Pierre GM]

On Nov 27, 2008, at 3:08 AM, Manuel Metz wrote:
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>
> Certainly, yes! Dealing with fixed-length fields would be necessary.  
> The
> case I had in mind had both -- a separator ("|") __and__ fixed-length
> fields -- and is probably very special in that sense. But such
> data-files exists out there...

Well, if you have a non-space delimiter, it doesn't matter if the  
fields have a fixed length or not, does it? Each field is stripped  
anyway.
The real issue is when the delimiter is ' '... I should be able to  
take care of that over the week-end (which started earlier today over  
here :)