Re: [9fans] rows to cols?

[dave.l@mac.com]

> It's the sort of thing I used to give as an exercise to students.

Wish I'd been in your class.

> Explicit looping looks so strenuous.

I know: I kept thinking "map ... join": too much perl.

> To make the tr|pr method more general, you can count columns first
> with

But that's multi-pass:-).

You could of course, use one pass of wc to count the words and lines,
then divide words by lines to get cols:-).

There are too many mad genius coders on this list.
Next: count the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin using an
acid function.

Can we talk about plan9 now, please?

D