in reply to Re^2: Text manipulation
in thread Text manipulation

something like this:
#!perl use strict; use warnings; # open a file for reading in the current directory open(FILEHANDLE,"< input_file.txt") or die $!; open(OUTFILE,"+> outfile_file.txt") or die $!; my $record_count = 0; while (<FILEHANDLE>){ my @data = split /\s+/; my $first = shift @data; $record_count++; for (my $i = 0; $i < @data; $i+=2) { print OUTFILE "$record_count\t$first\t", $i/2+1, "\t$data[$i] +", $data[$i+1], "\n"; } }
May be I've missed some details, but the way is correct
As for me, I prefer -n flag in such cases:
#!perl -lwn my @data = split /\s+/; my $first = shift @data; for (my $i = 0; $i < @data; $i+=2) { print join "\t", $., $first, $i/2+1, $data[$i], $data[$i+1]; }
usage:
this_script.pl input_file.txt >> output_file.txt