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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)"  <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] rows to cols?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:43:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <372549f4a1e93be164e3f5016203c1c3@yyc.orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e56a31560911122339v5cd82d27g46b82737fcb1eaa0@mail.gmail.com>

> Is there an easy way to transpose the text so that rows become
> columns, and vice versa? Delimiter is space. Perhaps in AWK?

If Richard's trick won't work, grab contrib/lyndon/transpose.c.

It's dog slow (actually, avl(2) is), but its effectively
unbounded for the input dataset size.

--lyndon

P.S. Never underestimate the power of C.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-14  4:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-13  7:39 Peter A. Cejchan
2009-11-13  8:44 ` Richard Miller
2009-11-13  9:36   ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-11-13 23:53   ` dave.l
2009-11-14  9:43     ` Richard Miller
2009-11-14 11:27       ` dave.l
2009-11-14  4:43 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) [this message]
     [not found] <<372549f4a1e93be164e3f5016203c1c3@yyc.orthanc.ca>
2009-11-14 15:11 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-14 23:23   ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)

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