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The variable of type list is used to hold the contents of an ASCII file - the elements of this list variable are themselves lists, each holding a line of text. The elements of these sub lists are the text line tokens (component strings) arising from the parsing of the text.
table read_table ( definition )
Reads an ASCII table-based file such as a comma separated value (CSV) file. Use the Table Reader icon to construct the input definition for this function.
string tmpfile ( )
Reserves and returns a unique file name (inside the Metview cache directory) for a temporary file. Returned filenames are unique even when there are several copies of the same macro being executed simultaneously.
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