As a first learning project in Julia I have started to try to convert a project I did in R into Julia. And it turns out I quickly ran into a couple roadblocks. All of which are related to reading in legacy data files like the ones used in the project I selected. While these features are most like…

Julia is perfectly capable of parsing this in a few lines of code without any special library (you read lines, extract fields, parse them). Eg with something like using Missings null_to_missing(x) = isnull(x) ? missing : unsafe_get(x) parsefield(::Type{Int}, string) = null_to_missing(tryparse(Int,…

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nalimilan January 29, 2018, 4:23pm 2

You’ll probably be interested in Reading Fixed-Width Column Data.

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