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No mention of the data format. Is it json, csv what? I know you can always head -n the file but a little hint would be helpful!

• nachi 13y ago
  It looks like an ASCII-formatted table. Pretty disappointing that it isn't machine readable out of the box.
  • timthorn 13y ago
    What's not machine readable about an ASCII table? A fixed width table has its own advantages over eg CSV - for instance, to read a specific field you can reach it by offset rather than having to count delimiters.
    • cwmma 13y ago
      fixed width might have technical advantages but CSV has the advantage of being able to be read by a lot of things out of the box.
      • timthorn 13y ago
        So does fixed width. Excel, MySQL, R, Perl... :)
  • aw3c2 13y ago
    sed 's/[[:blank:]]//g' dataset.dat | sed 's/|/\t/'