Reading spreadsheet file with varying number of delimiters

Dear Forum,
I wish to read in a spreadsheet file (text) generated by some 3rd party programme. It turns out that while the programme generates columns separated by spaces, the number of spaces between columns varies in a fashion I have yet to disentangle. This is not a problem if I wish
to read in the file in excel (or equivalent) - but LabView's "spreadsheet string to array" functions doesn't seem to be able to cope with it - if I enter "space" as the delimiter it accepts only a *single* space... is there some way to indicate "zero or more" spaces to this function ? [I know I can make a bunch of loops and read the items one number at a time, but this is very slow, so I'd prefer to avoid it]
Thanks,
Niels
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You can do a search and replace. Search for any number of spaces and replace them with just one and then use the Spreadsheet String To Array function.
Use the + to search for one or more.
Be sure to set the Search and Replace setting for "Regular Expression" Right click options.
But that might not always work if there are columns that are empty.
Post an example of the text file that you are working with from the 3rd party software.
+
Marks part of a pattern as one that can appear one or more times in the input. For example, be+ matches be in believe, bee in beep, and fails (no match) with bat.
Omar

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