From: George George <george.githinji@...>
Date: 2009-06-15T21:21:59+09:00
Subject: Re: formatting a listing

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> George George <george.githinji@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 3
>> any ideas?
> It's hard to tell, since there seem to be random changes in the output
> data vs. the input.  Well, one random change.  Or do you really mean
> to subtract 1 from the first row, second column of the output?
> What about the missing commas?  Why the numbers are left-aligned?
> 
thank you so much for the reply.
The first column is a column of numbers separated by some white space.
The idea is to capture the first block and create a column and the 
capture the next one and create another column adjacent to the previous 
one such that
if
1
2
3
whitespace(one or more)
3
4
5
6
whitespace(one or more)
20
2
.
.
 what i need is to transform that into (call it a matrix)
such that every block of numbers separated by white space becomes a new 
row in the output e.g for he above case
1,3,20
2,4, 2
3,5,
, 6,

and so on. the comma separator is neccessary so that i can later parse 
it using any csv library or i can read it into a spreadsheet and

Thank you
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