On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 16:07:44 PM +0000, Paul Smith (phhs80@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Dear All > > I have a long spreadsheet as follows: > > X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 > 2 6 1 1 4 ... > I am looking for a program to replace, for each spreadsheet line and > for each number therein, the respective text and create a phrase > concatenating the pieces of text corresponding to the numbers. Is > there some tool to accomplish this goal? (note: this has almost nothing to do with Fedora) Anyway: 1) what is the exact format of the spreadsheet? Without knowing that it is difficult to answer: opendocument, ASCII, tab-delimited file, what? 2) Can you provide a line or two of actual texts to concatenate? I am not sure *I* can help you with this, but knowing the answers to the questions above will surely allow more people to contribute if they can. HTH, Marco -- The right way to make everybody love Free Standards and Free Software: http://digifreedom.net/node/73