Hello! I have an output text file looking like this:

...
GRAZ X 4
Y 6
Z 3
N 22
E 3
U 15

KIGB X 2
Y 6
Z 6
N 13
E 20
U 11

...

I need to extract for each station (in this case GRAZ and KIGB) the N,E,U and sort it something like this:
station N E U
GRAZ 22 3 15
KIGB 13 20 11

How do I tell perl to find station and then from that station goes to next line with "N" and takes numbers at xth position, and then goes to line where it is "E", ..and so on.

Sorry if it is too stupid, I am just not experienced in perl and dont know if there is some simple way to do it? I have quite large files and lots of stations to extract, so I want to avoid manual approach.

Thank you!

In reply to Extract data from next n-th line by kana

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