comment on

$ cat tmp/tmp.pl && perl tmp/tmp.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use strict;
use warnings;
my $heading=readline(DATA);
my @headings=split/,/,$heading;
print $heading;
my (@index,@values);
while(<DATA>){
chomp;
    if (/^(\w+),\s*$/){
        push @index,$1;
    }
    else{
        @values=split/,/,$_;
    }
}
my $row = 0;
for my $record (@index){
    print join(",\t", $record, @values[(scalar(@headings) * $row) .. (
+(scalar(@headings) * $row) + $#headings -1)]),"\n";
    $row++;
}


__DATA__
    a,       b,    c,   d
aa,
bb,
aa,
bb,
12,33,102,111,223,24,88,56,99,130,21,45,88,90,212,500
    a,       b,    c,   d
aa,     12,     33,     102
bb,     223,    24,     88
aa,     99,     130,    21
bb,     88,     90,     212
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I trimmed the trailing "," in your headings line as that breaks the CSV standard, but your format seems variable so...

print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."

In reply to Re^5: Cutting text from the end of the file and adding it to the top by Utilitarian
in thread Cutting text from the end of the file and adding it to the top by oysterperl

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