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I know how to read in a tab delimited file, but I am having problems
reading one without ignoring line breaks. The text I am trying to read
has line breaks in paragraphs that I would like to keep as one token.

Is there a way to read in a text file while ignoring actual line breaks
and using my own special character to break up the lines?

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> I know how to read in a tab delimited file, but I am having problems
> reading one without ignoring line breaks. The text I am trying to read
> has line breaks in paragraphs that I would like to keep as one token.
>
> Is there a way to read in a text file while ignoring actual line breaks
> and using my own special character to break up the lines?

Yeah. When you see a tab, that's a delimiter. Otherwise, keep reading.
Hope that helps.

Can I use a tab as the delimiter and something besides a carriage
return for the line break? I want a special character to equal a line
break instead of an actual line break.

Does anyone have sample code that will do this?

On Sat, 7 May 2005 wrote:

> I know how to read in a tab delimited file, but I am having problems
> reading one without ignoring line breaks. The text I am trying to read
> has line breaks in paragraphs that I would like to keep as one token.
>
> Is there a way to read in a text file while ignoring actual line breaks
> and using my own special character to break up the lines?

You don't tell us how you are reading in from the file but I can guess:

Quit using readLine(). By definition it will read up to the first carriage
return or new line character. Write your own method.

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You are correct. I am using readLine and this is the first time it
hasn't fit my needs. What should I use?