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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23.03.2017 00:25, Jens Simon Strom
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      The test data I posted had been preprocessed manually by
      equalizing the spaces between the colums to a single one. The
      original output of the MICA astro software aligns the colums
      tidily so that the number of spaces varies along a line and from
      line to line if the values vary between 1 and 3 digits. One can
      fix that with regex. It would be workflow supporting if the
      separator input of<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">
        csvRead</font> would interpret several blanks as equivalent to
      one or if automation could be acchieved elsewise.<br>
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    Jan-Åge<br>
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