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Old 02-12-2009
Question Parsing file to match strings
I have a file with the following format

12g data/datasets/cct 8g data/dataset/cct
10 g data/two 5g data/something_different
10g something_different
5g data/two

is there a way to loop through this file and line up and print out the numbers with the matching directories. For example,
10g data/two 5g data/two

thanks!
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Old 02-12-2009
i can just tell where this is going to go.... so before it spins into a thread
of 3 dozen half solutions....

OP, can you please provide a larger and more accurate sample data?
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