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.
SEE ALSO:
,
.