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Postings from January 2002
At 06:18 PM 1/30/2002 -0500, you wrote: >One of the most common needs in data analysis is to "abut" two files. This >means to create a single file by horizontally pasting two files together. > >So: starting with two files each with, say, 4 columns and 4 rows, the result >is one file with 8 columns and 4 rows. > >For a couple decades now I've relied on Gary Perlman's "stat" utilities >(specfically, the abut program) to do this in a unix environment. > >How to do it on a macintosh? I'd like to avoid having to use a program like >microsoft excel. I'm wondering if perl has the ability to abut two files. >I've downloaded perl, but before trying to master it, I'm hoping someone >knowledgeable would be willing to tell me if (and how) perl can easily abut >two files. Essentially, you would go through both files a line at a time printing to a third file. first reading the first file, print, read second file, print etc. for each line. Which Mac OS do you have? X should have perl by default. RogerThread Previous