head -5 cp_7_9_12_v17_0.fwf If it’s binary or unreadable, it may be EBCDIC-encoded (from mainframe). Assume the file has 3 fields of widths 7, 9, and 12 characters (no delimiter).
If the file is in , convert first:
print(df.head())
import codecs with open('cp_7_9_12_v17_0.fwf', 'rb') as f: raw = f.read() text = codecs.decode(raw, 'cp500') # or 'cp1047' for IBM mainframe library(readr) fwf_positions <- fwf_widths(c(7, 9, 12), col_names = c("field1", "field2", "field3")) cp_7_9_12_v17_0.fwf
head -5 cp_7_9_12_v17_0.fwf If it’s binary or unreadable, it may be EBCDIC-encoded (from mainframe). Assume the file has 3 fields of widths 7, 9, and 12 characters (no delimiter).
If the file is in , convert first:
print(df.head())
import codecs with open('cp_7_9_12_v17_0.fwf', 'rb') as f: raw = f.read() text = codecs.decode(raw, 'cp500') # or 'cp1047' for IBM mainframe library(readr) fwf_positions <- fwf_widths(c(7, 9, 12), col_names = c("field1", "field2", "field3"))