| count.fields {base} | R Documentation |
count.fields counts the number of fields, as separated 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.
count.fields(file, sep = "", quote = "\"'", skip = 0,
blank.lines.skip = TRUE)
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 separate fields. |
quote |
the set of quoting characters |
skip |
the number of lines of the data file to skip before beginning to read data. |
blank.lines.skip |
logical: if TRUE blank lines in the
input are ignored. |
A vector with the numbers of fields found.
cat("NAME", "1:John", "2:Paul", file = "foo", sep = "\n")
count.fields("foo", sep = ":")
unlink("foo")