On 10/31/06, David Fletcher <fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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 > >1 E >1 E >1 E >2 C >2 C >3 B >3 B >3 D >4 C >4 C >4 D >5 E > >Any ideas? I am guessing that the transformation should have been 1 E 1 E 1 E 2 C 2 D 3 B 3 E 3 D 4 C 4 E 4 D 5 D 5 E ???? I'm not that great at scripting which somebody else will no doubt suggest, so personally I'd write a little C/C++ application to do it. I've got a string parsing function that I wrote to split a string into white space delimited fields and return a count of the number of fields, which would be a good starting point for this.
Correct guess, Dave. Is there something easier than C/C++? Since I am not a programmer, I would like to use a tool very easy of learning. Paul
