OT: a problem about text manipulation

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 11:04:33 UTC 2006


On 10/31/06, David Fletcher <fc at fletchersweb.net> 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?
>
> I am guessing that the transformation should have been
> 1 E
> 1 E
> 1 E
> 2 C
> 2 D
> 3 B
> 3 E
> 3 D
> 4 C
> 4 E
> 4 D
> 5 D
> 5 E
> ????
>
> I'm not that great at scripting which somebody else will no doubt
> suggest, so personally I'd write a little C/C++ application to do it.
> I've got a string parsing function that I wrote to split a string
> into white space delimited fields and return a count of the number of
> fields, which would be a good starting point for this.

Correct guess, Dave.

Is there something easier than C/C++? Since I am not a programmer, I
would like to use a tool very easy of learning.

Paul




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