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06-29-2015

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This is not really what I would call a simple transposing function (flipping columns to rows and vice-versa) but you are looking to tabulate the input.

You could use arrays if you can be certain of the rows & columns you want to look for. You can then read the input and set a flag in the appropriate row/column of the array depending on what you read. Finally, you display the table based on the array values, just looping round them.

What have you tried so far?
What are you comfortable using/supporting? For example ksh only, perl, awk, sed, C?

For "plate" do you mean the column marked "Assay"?

Can you logically define the process you want to follow? If you can then with refinement we can work out the code you need.

Sorry for the questions, but I would prefer to get a good solution that you can maintain in future rather than just going "Ta-da!" and you have no idea how it works and I have no idea if it meets your needs when you have data that is larger than the sample.

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column

COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME

     column -- columnate lists

SYNOPSIS

     column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The column utility formats its input into multiple columns.  Rows are filled before columns.  Input is taken from file operands, or, by
     default, from the standard input.	Empty lines are ignored.

     The options are as follows:

     -c      Output is formatted for a display columns wide.

     -s      Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.

     -t      Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table.  Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
	     the characters supplied using the -s option.  Useful for pretty-printing displays.

     -x      Fill columns before filling rows.

ENVIRONMENT

     The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7).

EXIT STATUS

     The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

	   (printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ; 
	   printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ; 
	   ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t

SEE ALSO

     colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)

HISTORY

     The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

BUGS

     Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.

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