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    <p>Julian,</p>
    <p>  The two options I see are either to edit the file and "clean it
      up" so that the text columns all have the same number of
      characters or (and probably preferably) you can open up the file
      in Excel and strip out the text column, save a copy of the file as
      a *.csv file, then read it with an unformatted reading version of
      Type9.</p>
    <p>kind regards</p>
    <p> David</p>
    <p><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/26/2019 09:10, Julian Schumann
      via TRNSYS-users wrote:<br>
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        <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
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"
            lang="EN-US">P.S. I am out of office for the rest of the
            week.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:DE">M.Sc. Julian
            Schumann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              style="color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:DE">Solar
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            des Aufsichtsrats: Ministerialrat Dr. Sebastian Huster</span><i><span
              style="color:#0033CC;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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