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Old 10-25-2011
splitting single column values into text and number component

Hey guys, I have a column that consists of string and integer values without a distinctive deliminator, looking like this...

7ASA
14LAL
245FOO
656MOM
87577DAD
...

I want to split the column into two columns, one containing the numbers and one containing the text part.

edit: numbers are always on the left, text is always on the right

Any ideas?
# 2  
Old 10-25-2011
sed

Hi,
Try this one,

Code:
sed 's/\([0-9]*\)\(.*\)/\1 \2/g' Input_File

Cheers,
RangaSmilie
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Old 10-25-2011
Code:
perl -F"" -alne 'print @F[0..$#F-3]," ",@F[$#F-2..$#F]' file

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Old 10-25-2011
thanks a bunch! Smilie
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