Hi Monks!
I am looking to see if there could be a clever way to read a tab-separated file (copied from an excel sheet) vertically.
Image that you have: 
NAME  LAST_NAME PHONE EMAIL
John Smith 1234 lala@lala.com
Peter Jones 6789 ttt@yahoo.com
George Lukas 9086 lll@hotmail.com

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and you want to print out firstly the list of names, then the list of last names, the list of phones and the list of emails.
My approach (maybe a stupid one) would be to read the first line, split it using "\t" as delimeter, and then, while reading each line, splitting them as well and appending, for example, the preffix NAME to each element of each line that appears in the [0] position of the temporary array that will be created.
Can you show me another, more efficient way for this?

In reply to Smart way to read a file vertically? by Anonymous Monk

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