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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello TRNSYS Users,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I am trying to read a data file, provided by measurement data. The problem is, that I have one column with text and another column with data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>To read the data, I used Type 9d to skip the text columns and to read the data columns.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The problem is, that my data basis does not have the same amount of space in each column.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>As you can see in the example.txt (appendix), the first line has 4 letters to skip, then a tab and after that the data to read.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In line 2, there are only 2 letters to skip with the tab and the data followed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The same problem occurs, if I try to read the data column itself, because the first line consists of a value of 0.0 (that would be F3.1 to read) and the third line consists of a value of 24.57 (that would be F5.2 to read).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Is there a way to read this data file without preprocessing the data?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks for the support!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>P.S. 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