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On 19/02/2016 10:47, wrong.address.1@gmail.com wrote:
>
> 2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 114 0
> 3 4 5 9 11
> "Lower"
> 278.15
>
> Is it straightforward to read this, or does one have to read one character at a time and then figure out what the numbers are?
>

One character at a time in a high level language like Python, please. 
See http://nedbatchelder.com/text/python-parsers.html for a list of 
parsers that can do all sorts for you.  Or the stdlib re module 
https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html.  Or a likely replacement for 
the re module https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence