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Reading Data Table

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• Subject: [mg119931] Reading Data Table
• From: fractal11 <trchan at mit.edu>
• Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:30:39 -0400 (EDT)

Is there a way to read a file with a user specified word separator and record separator, such that the result is a list of lists of words?

For example, a file containing "1 2 3\n4 5 6" would become {{1,2,3}, {4,5,6}}.

Import does almost exactly what I want, although I can't figure out how to change the word and record separators.

In particular, I have a file where word separators are tab characters, but the data themselves have spaces.  Therefore, Mathematica's default word separator of whitespace does not work.

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