Hi Arthur, On Wed, 17 May 2006 2:44:45 PM PST Arthur Knapp wrote:
> Yeah, I actually need something like this: > > apple > banana > pear > peach > > Turned into something like this: > > apple pear > banana peach Ah I see. Sorry, this wasn't clear to me based on your original description. If the number of lines per column is fixed, it shouldn't be too hard to come up with an appropriate Perl script (or AppleScript) to do so. Otherwise, you may be able to dig out a copy of BBEdit 6.5 which still seems to run fine on OS 10.4. I've put up a screen shot of that plug-in here: <http://store.extracts.de/BBEdit_653_ColumnizePlugin.png> > I just can't understand why that command was removed?! It wasn't > third-part, I'm sure it was a BBEdit built-in menu command, and it was > awfully damn useful! I've just checked out BBEdit 6.5.3 again. Columnize was a BBEdit factory plug-in available until BBEdit 6.5.x (IIRC). It did convert lines like: one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve into this (using "Number of columns: 3, Order by Row"): one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve or this (using "Number of columns: 3, Order by Column"): one five nine two six ten three seven eleven four eight twelve The column separator string could be choosen to any desired string. Best regards, Matthias _____________________________________ Matthias Steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.extracts.de -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
