I am fairly new to Perl. I have a file with data in it which looks like this:
> <Study Design|2|Additional Findings|1|Timepoint>
15

> <Study Design|2|Additional Findings|1|Timepoint Unit>
Days

> <Study Design|2|Additional Findings|1|Dose (Mg/Kg)>
20

> <Study Design|2|Additional Findings|1|Average Value>
412.22

> <Study Design|2|Additional Findings|1|Sd>
61.05

> <Study Design|2|Additional Findings|2|Timepoint>
15

> <Study Design|2|Additional Findings|2|Timepoint Unit>
Days

> <Study Design|2|Additional Findings|2|Dose (Mg/Kg)>
20

> <Study Design|2|Additional Findings|2|Average Value>
71.74

> <Study Design|2|Additional Findings|2|Sd>
11.07

And I want to end up with a tab separated column output:
Timepoint Timepoint Unit Dose Average Value SD
15 Days 20 412.22 61.05
I have worked out how to write a very basic Perl script which opens the file, reads it, and prints out the pairs of lines, but I'm not sure where to go from here. Can someone point me in the right direction - I'm really new to Perl and scripting altogether.
Thank you

In reply to Parsing multiple rows of text and converting to columns by gingeremmie

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