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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Transpose recursively into delimited file Post 302734263 by jcs on Wednesday 21st of November 2012 06:40:08 PM
Old 11-21-2012
Transpose recursively into delimited file

I would like to write a script that takes something like this:
Code:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
[Blank line]
Line 6
Line 7
Line 8
Line 9
[Blank line]
etc....

And makes it to look like this:
Code:
Line 1|Line 2|Line 3|Line 4|[Blank line, if it's easier]
Line 6|Line 7|Line 8|Line 9|[Blank line, if it's easier]

etc.

I would think it would be fairly easy to use two loops, one for the the 5-line pattern and one for each set of 5 lines. However, I am having trouble planning out the code because if I create a loop within the loop, I have problems figuring out how to control which line to read. Any suggestions?
Perhaps have a loop that would create 1 super long line but insert a counter to insert a line break every 5 lines?

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 11-22-2012 at 09:59 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines - Use concatenation or HEREDOCs instead of literal line breaks in strings. AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution. DESCRIPTION
Strings with embedded line breaks are hard to read. Use concatenation or HEREDOCs instead. my $foo = "Line one is quite long Line two"; # Bad my $foo = "Line one is quite long Line two"; # Better, but still hard to read my $foo = "Line one is quite long " . "Line two"; # Better still my $foo = <<'EOF'; # Use heredoc for longer passages Line one is quite long Line two Line three breaks the camel's back EOF CONFIGURATION
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