[OT] rearranging data files
Hi list
At university, we have an old spectro-photometer, that spits out its data in ASCII formatted
files. The problem is, The data I get is sorted in lines rather than in columns (See examples
below). Is there a progam (preferably command-line) that can do swap the rows to columns,
and vice-versa. I need something that makes "Search and replace two spaces by a \newline"
and afterwards a bit of rectangle-editing in emacs obsolete.
Here comes the example:
... The file I get from the photometer ...
0.000 -0.000014 0.007990 0.013480 0.017795 0.021675 0.028663 0.032588 0.038895 0.044002 0.050834
1.000 -0.000962 0.038026 0.069427 0.085865 0.108307 0.140563 0.166330 0.195794 0.223759 0.252516
--- end file ---
... And I have to change it to ...
-0.000014 -0.000962
0.007990 0.038026
0.013480 0.069427
0.017795 0.085865
0.021675 0.108307
0.028663 0.140563
0.032588 0.166330
0.038895 0.195794
0.044002 0.223759
0.050834 0.252516
--- end file ---
This is a rather short example, this is OK to be done by hand, but imagine 20 rows of 20
samples... Annoying, isn't it?
Thanks for any pointer
joerg
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