Some data files we use that are generated by some equipment unfortunately saves the output using "tab" to make the formatting look nice when printed. Unfortunately, sometimes there's one tab, and sometimes there's two tabs, depending on the width of the contents of the field.
For example:
Row Value1 Value2
1 1.2 6.2
2 12.5234213 1.2
3 0.1 2.2342
And in this contrived example, those spaces are defined with tabs. I'll type "\t" for each tab...
Row\tValue1\t\tValue2
1\t1.2\t\t6.2
2\t12.5234213\t1.2
3\t0.1\t\t2.2342
So JMP has no way to import that data directly with each value in the correct column. As a fix, I used Multiple File Import, imported Row Per Line strings, and used column formulas such as this:
cdt << New Column( "Gas1", Numeric, Formula( Word( 2, Regex( :Text, "[\s]", " ", GLOBALREPLACE ) ) ) );
But Excel has a "treat consecutive delimiters as one" in their import Wizard. If we agree that JMP is better than Excel, JMP should have this option, too!