[Chicago-talk] parsing lines

[Jay S]

Hi no worries.
Like I said in playing with the data it became harder to do the parsing I
needed.
long story short, I requested (and was given) the data in CSV

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 12:52 PM J L <joel.limardo at forwardphase.com> wrote:

> Once upon a time I would endeavor to look up some fine code and help
> people solve their Perl problems. I learned better. People need to show me
> how far along they've gotten and some evidence that they are trying to
> actually learn the language for me to care that much.
>
> Otherwise I am just coding against specifications and they have a name for
> that: a job.
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 10:58 AM David Mertens <dcmertens.perl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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