Re: OT: a problem about text manipulation

[Benjamin Franz <snowhare nihongo org>]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Joe Klemmer wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 03:05 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> 
> > Assuming that what you *MEANT* for your output example was
> [...]]
> > the following Perl script should do it. 
> 
> 	If I ever happen to get motivated I might try and do an awk script for
> this.  It's likely to be much simpler/smaller than the perl version
> (though not necessarily any better, OC).


#!/usr/bin/perl -na

foreach my $i (@F) { ($i =~ m/^[0-9]+$/) ? $a = $i : print "$a $i\n" }

:)))

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Benjamin Franz

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