Putting One Word Per Line

[decmatt]

Hi

Ive got a long list of words like this

slay sled slew slid

is it possible to change it to this format
slay
sled
slew
slid

as would take me years to do it manually?

Thanks

 

[gord]

Im not a programmer as such, and this may be better put in the programming section because im sure a simple explode type statement on a string like that replacing the spaces with carriage returns would give you what you want.

Infact, if youve got the full string i will give it a go.

 

[Ross1234]

load it in a text editor and do find and replace then do it with space and return

 

[decmatt]

gord - its all the words in this list http://calendarhome.com/wordlist.html

ross1234 - tried doing that but when i press enter it runs the find and replace command

 

[Ross1234]

gord - its all the words in this list http://calendarhome.com/wordlist.html

ross1234 - tried doing that but when i press enter it runs the find and replace command

instead of just pressing enter press shift+enter

 

[daven1986]

make a simple perl script with the line:

while(<>){
s/\s/\n/g;
print $_;
}

just put this in a file called newline.pl

then run it by putting in command prompt: "perl newline.pl < yourfile.extension > output.txt

this should work in windows. if not just email me the file - email in trust and i'll email it back with new lines.

daven

just read your post - here is the output with a newline for each word

http://rapidshare.com/files/93545299/output.txt.html

 

[gord]

http://www.rcsmith.co.uk/test/test.php

 

[decmatt]

make a simple perl script with the line:

while(<>){
s/\s/\n/g;
print $_;
}

just put this in a file called newline.pl

then run it by putting in command prompt: "perl newline.pl < yourfile.extension > output.txt

this should work in windows. if not just email me the file - email in trust and i'll email it back with new lines.

daven

just read your post - here is the output with a newline for each word

http://rapidshare.com/files/93545299/output.txt.html

http://www.rcsmith.co.uk/test/test.php

Thanks all, works great

 

[daven1986]

if you have to do much more text manipulation, might i suggest perl and regular expressions - it is a fantastic little language.

 

[MarcLister]

Shall I ask a don to move this to Programming or are we OK?

 

[fumbles]

Why not code something in Assembly?

Step 1:
Open MS Excel (or OO or whatever)

Step2:
Paste list

Step 3:
Copy list

Step 4:
Right Click > Paste special > Transpose

Talk about using a slegehammer!!