ACHTUNG

The following code is buggy, sorry.

... it will create empty files for each field ...

D:\tmp>type 1,George,CEO

1






George





CEO





D:\tmp>

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strange behavior... (Update: see solution here )

I didn't expect this, but Perl seems to silently refuse to re-open an already open file handle

so if you don't mind having the column head included you can go even shorter

D:\tmp>del id,name,position

D:\tmp>perl -lanE "open $FH[$x++], '>', $_  for @F;print $_ shift @F f
+or @FH" data.txt

D:\tmp>type id,name,position

id


id
1
2
3

name


name
Nick
George
Christina

position


position
boss
CEO
CTO

D:\tmp>

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^2: Split tab-separated file into separate files, based on column name (updated) by LanX
in thread Split tab-separated file into separate files, based on column name by Anonymous Monk

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