Re: Specific fixed width question...

[CdeMills]

forkandwait wrote:
> 
> Two lines of example data (notice that the county field (#4) is 25
> characters
> wide and that spaces are used both between fields like WA and 053 and
> between
> parts of the county name, so you can't just split on spaces):
> 
> WA 053 011 Clark County             45
> WA 053 027 Grays Harbor County      100
> 
> I would like to parse out cntys=[11; 27] and data=[45; 100] from the
> above.
> 
> I realize that I can pre-process the file outside of Octave, but I don't
> want to
> for various reasons (lack of access to real Unix tools, mostly).
> 
> 

 regexp('WA 053 011 Clark County             45 ', '\d+', 'match')
ans =

{
  [1,1] = 053
  [1,2] = 011
  [1,3] = 45
}

Could it be more simple ? 

Regards

Pascal
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