file formatting

[AngKar]

Hi,

I've an input file as :

A1(CR) \t B1(CR) \t C1
A2(CR) \t B2(CR) \t C2
.
.
.
and so on.
here CR is carriage return.

I want to format it to generate the o/p file as:

A1 \t B1 \t C1
A2 \t B2 \t C2
.
.
.

and it would look like:

A1 B1 C1
A2 B2 C2
.
.
.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
AK

[cwr]

Any suggestions? Yes, I suggest you write a program to carry out the task. I'd recommend Perl, and then I'd do something like:

$ cat infile
A1
        B1
        C1
A2
        B2
        C2
$ perl -ne 'chomp;if(!/^\t/){print"\n";}print;' < infile > outfile
$ cat outfile

A1      B1      C1
A2      B2      C2
$

But since this is a C forum, I'd suggest you write it in C. Which part are you stuck on?