Count the Number of Fields per Line
Usage
count.fields(file, sep = "", skip = 0)
Arguments
file
|
a character string naming an ASCII data file
|
sep
|
the field separator character. Values on each line of the
file are separated by this character. By default, arbitrary amounts
of whitespace can seperate fields.
|
skip
|
the number of lines of the data file to skip before
beginning to read data.
|
Description
count.fields
counts the number of fields, as seperated by
sep
, in each of the lines of file
read. It is used by
read.table
; a user will typically have no need for it.Value
A vector with the numbers of fields found.See Also
read.table
Examples
cat("NAME", "1:John", "2:Paul", file = "foo", sep = "\n")
count.fields("foo", sep = ":")