---
name: "tablefromascii"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "casacore-tools"
version: "3.7.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tablefromascii"
---

# tablefromascii(1)

Convert an ASCII file to a table

## NAME

tablefromascii - Convert an ASCII file to a table

## SYNOPSIS

**tablefromascii** *input* \[ *...* \]

## DESCRIPTION

This program converts an ASCII table to a table. It can only handle scalar columns. The separator between the fields in the ASCII file can be specified.

## OPTIONS

- **-in** \[string\]

  Input ASCII file

- **-out** \[string\]

  Output table name

- **-headerfile** \[string\]

  Name of optional file containing headers

- **-autoheader** \[T\|F\]

  Determine header automatically? (default: F)

- **-autoshape** \[string\]

  Shape if all columns are treated as one array

- **-columnnames** \[string\]

  Comma separated names of the columns

- **-datatypes** \[string\]

  Comma separated data types of the columns

- **-sep** \[string\]

  One character separator between values

- **-commentmarker** \[string\]

  Regex indicating comments

- **-firstline** \[int\]

  First line to process (default: 1)

- **-lastline** \[int\]

  Last line to process (\<0 is till end; default: -1)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Ole Streicher with information from the source code.