Re: OT: a problem about text manipulation

On 10/31/06, David Fletcher <fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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