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#!perl
use strict;

my @array = qw(
-- 0.0175 0.0483 0.0507
-- 0.0471 0.0483
-- 0.0287
--);

my @column;
my $curr_column = 0;
my $rows = 0;
while (@array) {
  if( $array[0] ne '--' ) {
    push @{ $column[ $curr_column ] }, shift @array;
    if( $rows < $#{ $column[ $curr_column ] } ) {
      $rows = $#{ $column[ $curr_column ] };
    };
  } else {
    $curr_column++;
    $column[ $curr_column] ||= [0]; # a new column
    shift @array;
  };
};

for my $row (0..$rows) {
  my @tmp = ();
  for (@column){
    if ( exists ($_->[ $row - $rows -1 ]) ){
      push @tmp,$_->[ $row - $rows - 1 ];
    }
  }
  print join "\t", @tmp;
  print "\n";
};

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poj

In reply to Re^7: array in different columns by poj
in thread array in different columns by Muflone82

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