Re: matrix text editing

[Paul Jarc]

Tsuyoshi Takada <address@hidden> wrote:
> -------------------
> a
> b
> delimiter
> c
> d
> delimiter
> e
> f
> -------------------
>
> to
>
> -------------------
> a     b
> c     d
> e     f
> -------------------

You can do this with sed.  Append each input line (with trailing
spaces, if you like) to the hold space, and then when you see a
delimiter line, replace it with the contents of the hold space.


paul