On Tuesday 31 October 2006 10:55, David Fletcher wrote: > At 10:25 31/10/2006, you wrote: > >Dear All > > > >I have a text file with more than 300000 of lines like the following: > > > >1 E E E > >2 C D > >3 B E D > >4 C E D > >5 D E > > > >I am looking for an automatic way of transforming my text file into > >another one with the format > > Not tidy, but works. #!/usr/bin/perl -w open(FIN,'testfile') || die "cannot open: $!"; while (<FIN>) { chomp; my ($key,@values)=split(/ */); foreach (@values) { print "$key $_\n"; } } close(FIN); -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list