Import and edit .asc data

Questions
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1

Hello! I’m a rookie and I would like to import .ASC file. It’s a table with 2 columns separated by a space. I want to separate both (in x and y) and then link them via transpose command. How do I get from the raw data to two separated sets of data? So far my approach has been:

asc = 
  SemanticImport["ref 1.asc" , <|1 -> Automatic|>, 
   "List", ExcludedLines -> Range[1, 56], Delimiters -> " "];

The output is:

{"4000.000000	99.579746", "3999.000000	99.571567", "3998.000000	
99.565144", "3997.000000	99.563823", "3996.000000	99.567302", 
"3995.000000	99.572190", "3994.000000	99.574877", "3993.000000	
99.573919", "3992.000000	99.570546", "3991.000000	99.567511", 
"3990.000000	99.567216", "3989.000000	99.570202", "3988.000000	
99.575037", "3987.000000	99.579679", "3986.000000	99.583246", 
"3985.000000	99.586611", ...

and so on

2

I have found a way (for the first line exemplary):

ToExpression[StringSplit[asc[[1]]][[1]]]

And then I can extract the data via a table.

3

Using the example provided (ignoring the \ characters)

importData = {"4000.000000 99.579746", "3999.000000 99.571567", 
   "3998.000000 99.565144", "3997.000000 99.563823", 
   "3996.000000 99.567302", "3995.000000 99.572190", 
   "3994.000000 99.574877", "3993.000000 99.573919", 
   "3992.000000 99.570546", "3991.000000 99.567511", 
   "3990.000000 99.567216", "3989.000000 99.570202", 
   "3988.000000 99.575037", "3987.000000 99.579679", 
   "3986.000000 99.583246", "3985.000000 99.586611"};

data = importData // Map[StringSplit/*ToExpression];

ListLinePlot[data]

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