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From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to move a column where column on right is variable	width
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 20:51:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp9gprde.fsf@fliptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b6f7632-f4c0-47c9-b3fb-b5d554c358c1@googlegroups.com>

> which is of the form:
>
> symbol<tab>Description
>
> the description is pretty free form.  Here are some examples:
>
> 06GG.L	BARCLAYS BANK PLC UNDATED FLTG RATE PRIM CAP NOTES'2'USD
> 06GL.L	NATIONAL GRID GAS 8.75% BDS 27/6/25 GBP(VAR)
> 07OZ.L	HAMMERSON PLC 6.875% BDS 31/3/20 GBP(VAR)
>
> What I would like to do is swap so it displays:
> Description<tab>Symbol.
>

Here is a suggestion using GNU sed

C-x h          mark-whole-buffer
C-u M-|        shell-command-on-region (with prefix to output in buffer)

then yank this as the shell command
sed -E 's/(.+)\t(.+)/\2\t\1/'

and hope there was no tabs in the description.

--
Tomas



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-16 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-16 16:34 Is it possible to move a column where column on right is variable width Angus Comber
2017-05-16 17:38 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-16 19:11   ` Joost Kremers
2017-05-16 19:23     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-16 19:32     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-16 18:51 ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
2017-05-16 19:14   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-16 21:56   ` Tomas Nordin
2017-05-17  1:17 ` Skip Montanaro
2017-05-17  2:05 ` Ben Bacarisse
2017-05-17  6:22 ` Loris Bennett
2017-05-18  6:17 ` hector

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