Delimit array with different strings
I ended up using the Pandas solution provided by Scott.  For some reason I am not 100% clear on, I cannot simply convert the array from string to float with float(array).  I created an array of equal size and iterated over the size of the array, converting each individual element to a float and saving it to the other array.
Thanks all
I have a text file that contains 3 columns of useful data that I would like to be able to extract in python using numpy.  The file type is a *.nc and is NOT a netCDF4 filetype.  It is a standard file output type for CNC machines.  In my case it is sort of a CMM (coordinate measurement machine).  The format goes something like this:
X0.8523542Y0.0000000Z0.5312869
The X,Y, and Z are the coordinate axes on the machine.  My question is, can I delimit an array with multiple delimiters?  In this case: "X","Y", and "Z".