Re: OT: a problem about text manipulation

["Paul Smith" <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/31/06, Yakov Hrebtov <hrebtov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am looking for an automatic way of transforming my text file into
> > another one with the format
> You may try this:
>   cat ./test.txt | awk '{print $1" "$2; print $1" "$3; print $1" "$4}' | grep
> -v ' $'

Thanks for all suggestions.

Yakov: can your solution be adapted to the conversion from


1	E		E	E	
2	C		D		
6					
3	B		E		D
4	C		E		D
5		D		E	

to

1	E
1	E
1	E
2	C
2	D
6	
3	B
3	E
3	D
4	C
4	E
4	D
5	D
5	E

?

Paul