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i cant use that to read only part of the line at a time though (?). I only wish to read the first two variables, then the third, then the fourth etc, not all at once.

hah, oh yes this is a good idea, just make another program to modify the input data. thanks gummibaer! i also realized the command column -t file.txt does the same thing (kinda). Thanks again

Thanks for the help! I should have included the data, don't know why i didnt. and actually the integers can have any amount of characters as far as i can tell. Here is a short example: 0 -0.123456e-01 1.123456e-03 -2.123456e+00 3.123456e-01 1 -4.123456e-01 5.123456e-03 -6.123456e+00...

Addendum: The column of integers is now the problem. I could indeed recreate these files so that i have no negative numbers, but i just realized that the column of integers includes numbers up to 1000. So now the problem is how do i specify format for integers which vary from 1 to 3 characters

I have large files with 5 columns of numbers. First column is an integer and other columns are reals, with one space in between all columns. i want to be able to read the first two numbers on a line, but be able to read the others later without having to backspace. The advance='no' feature is...