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I have been trying to import data from a DAT file but the text is separated by white rectangles, looks like "25af" characters but R doesn't recognise this as a separator.

Has anyone encountered this before? This file is encoded via ANSI if this helps?

Thanks in advance

Martin Pugsley
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You could try this:

read.csv(text = gsub("\u25af", ",", readLines("my_file.dat", encoding = "UTF-8")))
Allan Cameron
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