On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 18:55, PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing
lists wrote:
> I have a file with the following format
>
> Object1
> "Description1"
>
> Object2
> "Description"
>
> Object3
> "Description"
>
> I would like the output in the following format
> object1<...tab....>Description1
> object2<...tab....>Description2
> object3<...tab....>Description3
>
> Thanks
>
perl -lne 'BEGIN{$/="\n\n";}s/\n/\t/;print' FILENAME
HTH
Ram
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