hi. Im actually not sure if this is more a problem for excel but I'm not getting far with that so i thought id give this a shot. I have two columns of data that look like this;

AAvAE 3

AAvAH 1

AAvAO 2

AAvAW 2

AAvAY 3

AAvB 10

AAvCH 10

...

ZvTH 8

ZvUH 10

ZvUW 10

ZvV 6

ZvW 8

ZvY 9

ZvZH 2

the idea is that ZvV represents the point (z,v) in a matrix where the columns and rows are titled with these 'names' AA through to ZH (f.y.i these are phonemes). So i want to transfer the data from this form into the matrix form, with the follwing requirement;

A point in the matrix x,y (XvY) equals y,x (YvX), the values for XvY and YvX that i have should be averaged and incorporated into both of these points of the matrix.

The data that I have is for every phoneme combination (Phoneme1vPhoneme2), some cases i have multiple results. -thanks (steamerboy - not logged in because password is hard to remember plus my email account is not working for apparently no reason *shrug*)

In reply to constructing a matrix with perl by Anonymous Monk

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