reading "special" text files

hello,

assume you have a txt-file (sep="\t" or "") looking as follows that you 
want to read into a variable:

1	1	2			3
2	1	2	3		4
3	1	5	6	7	8

the result should look like this (e.g., in a data.frame):

1	1	2	3
2	1	2	3	4
3	1	5	6	7	8

is there any way to do so?
Yes, with e.g. sep="\t" and sep=" " the number of separators is taken 
into account.
No, with sep="" the separator is *any* white space.

Uwe Ligges
thanks in advance,
jan

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reading "special" text files

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