Hi and thanks for your answer, it's the one I think I understand the most, but it's very kind that you all took the time and tried to help. I'll also try to understand the other two answers hopefully.

I wasn't successful implementing this but I'm wondering if it has to do with the fact that I haven't really given you a clear picture of what my data looks like, so this file looks like this - this is probably a pretty silly way to show you but here's a link to a screenshot of my data https://www.dropbox.com/s/68xjbspn47jzmx9/Untitled.png?dl=0 , sorry I know this is really random but I have no clue how to properly format the numbers so that you can see.

As you can see I have 4 columns, the last one is always 1 digit and the rest always have 3 decimal digits. Can your solution (with some editing) still be implemented on my data?

In reply to Re^2: problem with splitting file on whitespace: how to circumvent inconsistent formatting through file by angela2
in thread problem with splitting file on whitespace: how to circumvent inconsistent formatting through file by angela2

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