On Wednesday 05 January 2011 14:00:44 Jeremy Conlin wrote:
> I have a text file that I want to put into columns, but I want
> to use spaces instead of tabs. Is there an easy (i.e., not
> manual) way to do this? A section of the file looks like:
> HEU-MET-FAST-001 1.0000(10) 0.9966(2) 1.0000(1)
> HEU-MET-FAST-004 0.9985 0.9948(3) 1.0003(1)
> HEU-MET-FAST-007.1 0.9950(24) 0.9901(1) 0.9931(1)
> I want the columns separated where now there is a single
> space. Can someone help?
assuming you have awk available you could create a filter
module, let's call it columnize.awk
<columnize.awk>
{ print "%-18s %9s %9s %9s", $1, $2, $3, $4 }
</columnize.awk>
and call it from a vim session with
:%!awk -f columnize.awk
i haven't tested this so it may need tweaking to your taste
sc
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