[Chicago-talk] parsing lines

[David Mertens]

PDL is absolutely the wrong tool for this. It does not handle strings in
anything resembling a sensible approach. After all, pure perl can handle
thousands of these manipulations just fine and plenty quick.

Jay, what is the potential input into your Perl script/one-liner? A PDF
document? An Excel spreadsheet with a bunch of vertical columns (presumably
not)?

David

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 10:38 AM J L <joel.limardo at forwardphase.com> wrote:

>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21433364/use-perl-pdl-to-rotate-a-matrix
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 8:18 AM Jay S <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm looking for an easy script / one liner.
>>
>> I cut-n-pasted a table inside PDF.
>> When I paste into excel it throws it all vertical
>>
>> How can I easily take N lines, and throw them horizontally?
>> (note I need to do this 1000s of times, so I can't manually transpose in
>> excel)
>>
>> Thank you mucho in advance
>>
>> for example:
>>
>> Company
>> Campaign
>> Name Member Type
>> Member
>> Status
>> Related
>> Record ID
>> Member First
>> Associated
>> Date
>> First Name Last Name Title Email Related
>> Record Owner City State/Province Country
>> (ACQUIRED)
>>
>> turns into
>> Company Campaign Name Member Type Member Status Related Record ID Member
>> First Associated Date First Name Last Name Title Email Related Record
>> Owner City State/Province Country (ACQUIRED)
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