Hi Bug-apl,
I am soliciting feedback (as per the process) of the attached APL code that will take a file that has a layout of two columns (space separator) and return a matrix.
-Alex
Title: xxx.apl
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⍝ Author: Alex Weiner
⍝ Date: June 27, 2015
⍝ Copyright: Copyright (C) 2015 by AlexWeiner
⍝ License: LGPL see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
⍝ email: alexwei...@alexweiner.com
⍝ Portability: L3
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⍝ Purpose:
⍝ Read in a text file that space seperated records and parse it into a n×m size matrix
⍝ only supports two columns right now
⍝ Description:
⍝ Matrix←ReadTableData 'name of the file'
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)COPY 5 FILE_IO.apl
filedata←{FIO∆read_file ⍵}
lineends←{⊃⍵⊂⍨~⎕av[⎕io+10]=⍵}
mat←{lineends filedata ⍵}
rows←{1↑⍴ ⍵}
table←{((rows ⍵),2)⍴(,~' '=⍵)⊂,⍵}
ReadTableData←{table mat ⍵}
]NEXTFILE
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⍝ EOF
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