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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>