Count the Number of Fields per Line

DESCRIPTION:

This function scans an ASCII text file and counts the number of fields on each line.

USAGE:

count.fields(file, sep, skip=0) 

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS:

file
the name of the text file of ASCII data. The file should contain one line per row of the table, with fields separated by the character in sep.

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS:

sep
the field separator. If missing, any amount of white space can separate items.
skip
the number of lines in the file to skip before reading data.

VALUE:

a vector giving the number fields, in the sense of scan or read.table, on each line of the file.

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