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18 Creating and Opening Files Chapter 2
Importing Data
Last Two Digits of
Current Year (as Shown
on Your Computer)
Two-Digit Date in Text File
JMP Display Format
Between 11 and 89 not applicable The current century is used as
the first two digits.
Between 00 and 10 Less than 90 The current century is used as
the first two digits.
Between 90 and 99
The previous century is used
as the first two digits.
Between 90 and 00 Between 0 and 10 The next century is used as
the first two digits.
Between 11 and 99
The current century is used as
the first two digits.
• 19xx JMP adds 19 before dates in the file that have only two digits that indicate the year.
• 20xx JMP adds 20 before dates in the file that have only two digits that indicate the year.
• Custom Lets you open and implement a JSL script that customizes how JMP handles dates.
Number of Lines
Specify the number of lines (rows) the imported file contains.
File contains column names on line Tell JMP where to find data to use as column names. For
example, if the column names in your text file are on line (row) 3, select this option and type 3 in
the box. Otherwise, JMP uses the data in the first line of the imported file as the column name in
the JMP data table or takes the first line as data.
Next Button moves to the next screen so you can name the columns and set their types.
After clicking the Next button, a screen appears that shows the text import’s best guess for column
types. To change these guesses,
• Click on the modeling icon to change the modeling type. Clicking cycles between the modeling
type and exclude. Exclude means the column will not be imported.
• Double-click on the name to edit the column’s name.
The top of the Text Import window shows a preview of the text file as it will appear when imported
into a JMP data file. Click the Import button to import the data.