code help because i'm a big stupid idiot.

[linear]

what's a quick and dirty way to render a set of data as a word doc?

or at least a page that when printed is 5(down)x2(across) blocks for printing data sets.

it can be perl, php, or javascript.

[liife]

I don't know.

[trevelyn]

here buddy:  try using Perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl
open (FILE, "file.txt");
@lines = <FILE>;
close (FILE);
chomp @lines;
print "$lines[0] $lines[1]\n";
print "$lines[2] $lines[3]\n";
print "$lines[4] $lines[5]\n";
print "$lines[6] $lines[7]\n";
print "$lines[8] $lines[9]\n";
print "\n";
print "$lines[10] $lines[11]\n";
print "$lines[12] $lines[13]\n";
# go on from there...
exit;

that's if the file you give it "file.txt" is line by line. 

Edit: jesus christ already with the red bold el oh el's.  I had to edit this whole damned post cos i used el oh el as the filehandle and el oh el dot tee ecks tee as the file!

[trevelyn]

yo, wait, i thought of two things.. If the file is HUGE you won't want to code the whole thing, so stick the block into a while loop. and the highest element of the set @lines would be $#lines.  Also, if the file is NOT line by line, just make it that way with sed using regexp's. 

[trevelyn]

here, check it out, i recoded it for you!

#!/usr/bin/perl
$n = 0;
open (FILE, "file.txt");
@lines = <FILE>;
close (FILE);
chomp @lines; $m = $#lines;
until ($n > $m) { print "$lines[$n]"; $n++; print " $lines[$n]\n"; $n++;
print "$lines[$n]"; $n++; print " $lines[$n]\n"; $n++;
print "$lines[$n]"; $n++; print " $lines[$n]\n"; $n++;
print "$lines[$n]"; $n++; print " $lines[$n]\n"; $n++;
print "$lines[$n]"; $n++; print " $lines[$n]\n"; $n++;
print "\n"; }

* trevelyn <-- just another perl hacker.

[trevelyn]

youre taking way too long to respond so i'll post a sed statement too, here is what you do if you wanna get rid of space in a file (to make it work with the above scripts:

cat file.txt | sed 's/ /\n/g'

yay! this is fun!

[linear]

thanks so much, you're amazing!

I'll let you know how it goes.

[ApprenticePhreak]

I still owe Trev some illegally downloaded books. I've got the time today, so maybe you'll get some today! OMGHAX!2131#!@#1

[trevelyn]

i luv you guys. i love pla.  and today it's my birthday. 11-7-1980.

[ApprenticePhreak]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TREVELYN! YOU'RE WASTING YOUR LIFE HERE JUST LIKE THE REST OF US~~~~ 

[Nod]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TREV! WE LOVE YOU TOO!

[trevelyn]

thanks!

[Nod]

Can I mail you my phone and have you do all the neat stuff I want with it? I'll gladly send you a cookie.

[murd0c]

i luv you guys. i love pla.  and today it's my birthday. 11-7-1980.

Did you get my letter yet?

[Nod]

I WANT A LETTER FROM MURD0C! But I don't want him to have my address 'cause I'm afraid he'll find me and buttrape me.