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read CSV

From	Alan <alan.isaac@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	read CSV
Date	2011-03-30 09:13 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID	<imus7l$i3t$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

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I've received some files formatted like below.
How can I read selected columns into a list?
I'm coming from a background where I'd read in each line,
discarding the first, then (in this case at least)
split on the comma, and coerce the type.  So I'm happy
to do that if I can figure out how.  (Naturally I could
preprocess the data into a form that say ReadList
likes better, but I'm looking for a pure Mathematica solution.)

Thanks,
Alan Isaac

"x","y","color","pen down?"
"0","0.26161459854014585","105","true"
"1","0.2665251497682828","105","true"
"2","0.29244385081680907","105","true"
"3","0.31995416628471895","105","true"

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read CSV Alan <alan.isaac@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 09:13 +0000
  Re: read CSV David <dlkeith@comcast.net> - 2011-03-31 09:03 +0000
  Re: read CSV David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk> - 2011-03-31 09:03 +0000
  Re: read CSV Peter Breitfeld <phbrf@t-online.de> - 2011-03-31 09:04 +0000
  Re: read CSV annetts729 <annetts729@gmail.com> - 2011-03-31 11:04 +0000

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