How to exchange two columns in a table?

coscell at mail.batol.net coscell at mail.batol.net
Sat Jan 6 15:14:40 UTC 2007


Thank you! It's just a tab-delimited text file.

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Tim Chase wrote:

> I think you'll have to provide a few more details:
>
> 1) where is the table?  In a spreadsheet?  In a database?  In a text-file?
>
> 2) If it's a spreadsheet or database, what flavor? (Gnumeric? Siag?  SC? 
> Oleo?  OpenOffice.org?  KOffice?  MySQL?  PostgreSQL?
>  SQLite? etc)
>
> 3) If it's just a text file, how are columns determined?  Is it a CSV file? 
> (and if so, how is character escaping/quoting done?) Is it a tab-delimited 
> file?  Are the columns positional? (i.e. columns 1 through 10 are the first 
> field, 11 through 15 are the next, etc)
>
> With the extra details, it should be pretty easy to find a solution.
>
> -tim
>
>
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