On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Benjamin Franz wrote: > 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 $i\n" } > > :))) Darn it, now you have me playing Perl Golf (last one, promise): #!/usr/bin/perl -na foreach (@F) { m/^[0-9]+$/ ? $a = $_ : print "$a $_\n" } -- Benjamin Franz