Hi, the problem I am trying to solve goes as follows:

I am given a txt file with the following values:
Code:
251  383  346  209  432  232
        342  909  423  102  238  203
23    34    33    93     88   90    
38    48    76    54     56   49
I spaced it so you can see what I am talking about.

I would like to store the values into a 7 X 4 array, but my problem is I do not know what to do with the blank values. (The values can not be set to 0) Is there essentially a way to store those blanks values so that they do not count? Also I need to be able to accept various input files not just the one given. (Other input files may have blank spaces as well).

Any suggestions?
Thank you a lot for your time and help.


[code][/code]tagged by Salem
To show spaces in the file