in reply to Simple Text Conversion
Run it like#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wi.bak use strict; my @recs; while (<>) { chomp; push @{$recs[int(($.-1) / 5)]}, split /,?\s/; print map join('|', @$_) . "\n", $recs[int($.-1) / 5] if !($. % 5); }
Saves the original in <file>.bak.% reformat.pl <file>
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