On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Joe Klemmer wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 03:05 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote: > > > Assuming that what you *MEANT* for your output example was > [...]] > > the following Perl script should do it. > > If I ever happen to get motivated I might try and do an awk script for > this. It's likely to be much simpler/smaller than the perl version > (though not necessarily any better, OC). #!/usr/bin/perl -na foreach my $i (@F) { ($i =~ m/^[0-9]+$/) ? $a = $i : print "$a $i\n" } :))) -- Benjamin Franz Perl - A post-modern programming language or a scripting tool gone horribly, horribly wrong? -- Rob Malda