in reply to Re^3: selecting columns from a tab-separated-values file
in thread selecting columns from a tab-separated-values file
That is a dangerous thing to do. it works for your example data, but it will break on real word data where you will have LAST names like Van Winkle and CITYs called New York.What's the first arg to split()? It appears to be a single blank char. How does that work to split upon tab chars?It's a space enclosed within single quotes. It tells split to split on whitespace, e.g., \t, \n, space.
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