On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:25 +0000, Paul Smith 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? > > Thanks in advance, Something seems funky there. The desired output doesn't match the input data. Can you describe in a general way what it is you are trying to do? -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk