Hi all, I have a text file : 
v_x {
x1
x2
x3
x4
x5
x6
x7
x8
}
v_y {
y1
y2
y3
y4
y5
}
v_z {
z1
z2
z3
z4
z5
z6
}
...

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There are about 100 "vectors" with different length. I would like to write a Perl script to convert it to the form: 
x1 y1 z1
x2 y2 z2
x3 y3 z3
x4 y4 z4
x5 y5 z5
x6    z6
x7
x8

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So each vector becomes a column. Because of different length of vector, I don't know how to process it. In this case, using of Array or Hash is better ? Could you give me some ideas please. Thank you in advance, Regards,

2005-12-15 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Text processing'

In reply to text processing - convert list of vectors to tabular format by vnpenguin

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