writing delimited text as a string to a spreadsheet - google-apps-script

Question

i have a short script where i'm trying to grab data from a URL and write it to a sheet of an existing spreadsheet. the script is as follows:
function urlDataImport() {
var input = "https://reports.acc-q-data.com/clientreports/ecaldwell_201206192722/ecaldwell_20122722.txt";
// The code below gets the HTML code.
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(input);
var data = response.getContentText();
Logger.log(data);
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var ptSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("pt");
ptSheet.getActiveRange().setValues(data);
}
the information in data is tab delimited and shows up properly in the log but because it's a string i can't use .setValues to write it to the sheet pt and i'm not sure how to get the information from the URL in any other way.
i'm sorry for the rudimentary nature of this question but i'm very new to scripting so any help would be appreciated.
Updated Code:
function ptDataImport() {
var input = "https://reports.acc-q-data.com/clientreports/ecaldwell_201206192722/ecaldwell_2012062.txt";
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(input); // Get the data from the URL as an object.
var data = response.getContentText(); // Convet the object to text
var dataSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("pt"); // Get the sheet to write the data to
var rows = data.split('\n'); // Splits the text into rows
dataSheet.clear();
var dataSet = new Array();
for ( var i in rows){
dataSet[i] = rows[i].split('\t'); // Split the rows into individual fields and add them to the 2d array
}
dataSet.pop(); // Had a blank row at the bottom that was giving me an error when trying to set the range - need to make this conditional somehow
var numColumns = dataSet[0].length;
var numRows = dataSet.length;
var lastRow = dataSet[(numRows -1)];
dataSheet.getRange(1,1,numRows,numColumns).setValues(dataSet); // Get a range the size of the data and set the values
}

Answer 1

#Serge, I think Evan's question was different. Evan is concerned that the split does not take rows into consideration.
The solution to that is to use two splits. First,
var rows = data.split('\n');
And then
for ( var i in rows){
tmp = rows[i].split('\t'); // Use Serge's method if this doesn't work
/* Get the range here */
range.setValues([tmp]);
}

Answer 2

Range.setValues() takes a 2-D array as input.
I'm not sure what you want to do. If all you want to do is write data into a cell, then use this piece of code
ptSheet.getActiveRange().setValues([[data]]);
If you want to write each of the elements in data to a row in a spreadsheet, then you can use
var tmp = data.split(DELIMITER);
/* Get the correct range here */
range.setValues([tmp]);
Notice how you are creating a 2-D array in the first case and in the second case.

Answer 3

I guess the easiest thing to do is to convert those tabs in something else, commas for example, that's after all where the 'c' of csv comes from... you can then write it wherever you want.
Exemple :
commaString = tabString.replace(\t/g,',') ; should work but I'm not an expert in regEx... if I'm wrong someone will for sure correct it ;-)