Ragnar Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Howdy again!
>
> I need to create a 20x20 correlation table. Last time I did this
> with cuts and pastes. (That was a smaller table in case you question
> my IQ ;) I wonder if there is an easier way to get the table if I've
> got a file with the coefficients in a tab delimited form anyway.
This shoud convert you file in a latex tabular environment:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# mkltxtab: converts an IFS-delimited file into a LaTeX tabular
# usage: IFS='\s+' mkltxtab mytable.dat > mytable.tex
$max = 0;
while(<>) {
chomp;
@row = split /$ENV{IFS}/;
push @data, [ @row ];
$max = @row if @row > $max;
}
print STDERR "Read ".(scalar @data)." rows with at most $max elements\n";
print "\\begin{tabular}{" . ("c"x$max) . "}\n";
for (@data) {
print join " & ", @{$_};
print "&"x($max-@{$_});
print "\\\\\n";
}
print "\\end{tabular}\n";
Save it into a file and make that executable, then run the program as
in the `usage` line above. The IFS bit tells the program what to use
to separate fields (rows are assumed to be separated by newline).
It is a Perl regex. For instance:
IFS=' ' a space
IFS=',\s*' comma followed by 0 or more spaces
IFS='\t' a tab
and so on...
Then you need to make the file available from within LyX. The easiest
way is to use the include feature (Insert > Include File).
I only have tested the program on a simple file but it appears to
work. You can also have different numbers of entries on each line.
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