Convert Chunk of Data into Tabular Format

neversaint has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Masters,
I have a data that looks like this

1:SRX000566
Submitter: WoldLab
Study: RNASeq expression profiling for ENCODE project(SRP000228)
Sample: Human cell line GM12878(SRS000567)
Instrument: Solexa 1G Genome Analyzer
Total: 4 runs, 62.7M spots, 2.1G bases
Run #1: SRR002055, 11373440 spots, 375323520 bases
Run #2: SRR002063, 22995209 spots, 758841897 bases
Run #3: SRR005091, 13934766 spots, 459847278 bases
Run #4: SRR005096, 14370900 spots, 474239700 bases

2:SRX000565
Submitter: WoldLab
Study: RNASeq expression profiling for ENCODE project(SRP000228)
Sample: Human cell line GM12878(SRS000567)
Instrument: Solexa 1G Genome Analyzer
Total: 3 runs, 51.2M spots, 1.7G bases
Run #1: SRR002052, 12607931 spots, 416061723 bases
Run #2: SRR002054, 12880281 spots, 425049273 bases
Run #3: SRR002060, 25740337 spots, 849431121 bases

3:SRX012407
Submitter: GEO
Study: GSE17153: Illumina sequencing of small RNAs from C. elegans emb
+ryos(SRP001363)
Sample: Caenorhabditis elegans(SRS006961)
Instrument: Illumina Genome Analyzer II
Total: 1 run, 3M spots, 106.8M bases
Run #1: SRR029428, 2965597 spots, 106761492 bases
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Is there a compact way to convert them into tabular format (tab separated). Hence 1 entry/row per chunk. In these case 3 rows.

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Re: Convert Chunk of Data into Tabular Format by GrandFather (Saint) on Apr 01, 2010 at 01:46 UTC
Show us at least a sample of the output you want. Although if you are really keen for help, show us the code you have tried so far and tell us where you are having trouble with it. True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re: Convert Chunk of Data into Tabular Format by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 01, 2010 at 02:54 UTC
Assuming the data is in a file: `perl -laF/\n/ -000ne"print join chr(9),@F" theFile` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Convert Chunk of Data into Tabular Format by Anonymous Monk on Apr 01, 2010 at 01:46 UTC
Is there a compact way to convert them into tabular format (tab separated) Yes there is.	[reply]