<p>Hello again and many thanks for the suggestions
<p>I'm new to everything, and would appreciate some help in formatting
+ text. given this (this is just a sample out of 100 lines) I should b
+e using regex:
<p>This is basically a bilingual dictionary entry, where under column 
+X we should see the word in English, under Y in Portuguese, and  unde
+r Z whether this is a noun, verb, etc. In bold type I'm showing the w
+ords that should only be added to the columns, disregard the rest. No
+t looking for someone to do my job, just some help on how to continue
+.
<P>this is what I was trying:
<H4>@entry[0..2]= split /\d+/, $_;<br>

print "$entry[0]\n";<br>

$_=~/\[(n+)\]/;<br>
print "$1\n";<br>

@trans[0..2]= split /:(\s\s)/, $_;<br>
print "$trans[0]\n";<br></H4>

<p><b>ignoramus</b>    16800    "behavior - man <b>[n]</b>: <b>ignoran
+te</b> [m]; <b>néscio</b> [m]"    "behavior - woman [n]: <b>ignorante
+</b> [f]; <b>néscia</b> [f]"</p><br>
<p><b>ignition</b>    16795    general <b>[n</b>]: <b>ignicion</b> [f]
+    internal-combustion engine [n]: <b>ignicion2</b> [f]</p><br><br><
+br>
----------<br>
<p>I should get this i.e. the lines above split into only three column
+s and only this info should be displayed..:</p>

<P>    X           Y      Z
<P>ignoramus   ignorante   n
<P>ignoramus   ignorante   n
<P>ignoramus   nescio      n
<P>ignoramus   nescia      n
<br>
<P>ignition    ignicion    n
<P>ignition    ignicion2    n
<br><br>
<p>Many thanks for any suggestions. And as you can see, I am new in pr
+ogramming, I'm a linguist.

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