Importing from .txt to delimited spreadsheet

In Excel you are able to Import data using a dialog box that allows you to separate columns by tab, spaces, etc. Is this possible in Numbers? I need to import some data but need to be able to separate it into columns before it come into Numbers.

Numbers does not have this capability as in Excel but you can import comma or tab-delimited files.
Comma-delimited files must be named with the ".csv" suffix and tab-delimited must be named with the ".txt" suffix. You will have to pre-format your data if it does not meet the comma or tab-delimited formats.
Alternately, you can use Excel to parse the raw data then import into Numbers.
Regards,

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hi, Back again with another question.
This is what i have coded so far. For whatever the reason it will not read in from the .txt file. And i'm not exactly sure what the layout should be considering this time i want to scan in multiple lines from the .txt file. if i do all of my coding in the while loop it should print and then go back and print the next line in order. Or at least i think?
Any advice on the bit of code i have here?
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.*;
//counts the number of words, and finds the only in position 4(4th spot in always)
public class file
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               String[]Words = M.split(" ");
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                 float ExamFinal = OnlyNumber;
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            else if(numWords >= 50)
                System.out.println(Words.length + "is the amount of words with the high number" + Words[3]);
}

My first bit of advice is to follow Java naming conventions. Class names start with an upper-case letter. Methods and fields and variables do not (unless they're constants, in which they're all upper-case).
The if/else statements at the end of the block don't make sense. First, you're checking to see if a number is positive, and if it is you're saying that it's negative.
Then the next two statements talk about "the low number" and "the high number", based on the number of tokens on the line, which (unless there's some weird special pattern with the content in the file) seem like non sequitors to me.

Import text into a form from a tab delimited file using an action

Good evening.
I am using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro
I have been working all weekend so far on this, and have tried many options.
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--credit goes to George Johnson who assisted me with this on a similar project a few months ago.
//Get the Field Value
var fn=getField("Last").valueAsString + "-" + getField("First").valueAsString;
//Specify the folder
var fldr = "/c/data/";
//Determine the full path
var fp=fldr + fn + ".pdf";
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What I want to do now is load the original form file, import the next line into the form, save the file, repeat.
If anyone could assist me, I would greatly appreciate it.
**note I had to type this from my I-pad because I kept getting kicked off the internet from my computer. I hope my code is typed correctly.

George
Thank you so much for your response.
Yes--there are multiple lines in the data file--it will vary from month to month. It looks like from what you are saying is that I need to do the global variable since it will constantly change, and then increment it as it goes through the text file. When it reaches the end, then it will stop.
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Count PDF Files
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Global counter
http://help.adobe.com/livedocs/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/ wwhelp.htm?href=JS_API_AcroJS.88.1.html
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1. Your trusted function is not a trusted function. Did you put this
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yes--I saved the script as a .js file and put it in the following path (I have Acrobat XI Pro for Windows)
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17:Console:Exec
undefined
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Thank you
Message was edited by: tdjohnson7700

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First my configuration
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