Importing ASCII data

[jthodge]

I'm trying to read a messy undelimited ASCII file into a workfile as pure rows of text from which I will use various string functions to extract my data. Here is the coding that I am currently using:

read(t=dat, d= ) %filename rawdata $

I use the option "d= " to indicate that there are no delimiters (other than the end of each row). The problem is that the first row of the ASCII file appears to have been dropped. The first observation in the alpha series is the second row from the file. Eviews correctly names my alpha series "rawdata" instead of using the first row as a series name. I've also tried using the option skiprow=0, but that doesn't solve the problem. So what happened to the first row of the file?

[EViews Gareth]

I think we'd need to see the file to answer this properly. Could you email in to support@eviews.com along with your serial number?