i am fighting with the conversion of columns to rows

Seenu Guddu

Hi Gurus,

i am fighting with the conversion of columns to rows for the below Output. need a help on this and i have 100K records to be converted from excel.

Main

BCD12345678 – this is fixed length of 11 characters. and the attributes are less then 11 characters.

Attributes are

AXY2
BXYS
CXY

Main text

BCD12345678
AXY2
BXYS
CXY
BCF12384678
AST4
ASUV
ASVG5
ASWG
ACF12315657
BXY5
CXY
AXYA43
DXY
EXYS6
YXY7

Required output

BCD12345678 AXY2 BXYS CXY
BCF12384678 AST4 ASUV ASVG5 ASWG
ACF12315657 BXY5 CXY AXYA43 DXY EXYS6 YXY7

Thanks in Advacne

PeterJones

Assuming I’ve interpreted correctly:

lines that are exactly 11 alphanumeric long should be joined with any shorter lines that immediately follow, space separated.

Regular Expression:

Find = “\R+(\w{1,10})$”
Replace = " \1" (space, backslash, 1)

(the quotes are to make spaces easier to see and copy)

This doesn’t bother finding the 11-character lines; it basically says “if I’m a line that has a newline before me, and have 1-10 characters, followed by end of line (or end of document), then remove the newline(s) before me and replace with a space”. it has the end result of producing the output you wanted.

If this isn’t sufficient, please provide more details. The following canned P.S. might help you understand how to provide more details.

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FYI: if you have further regex needs, study this FAQ and the documentation it points to. Before asking a new regex question, understand that many of us will expect you to show what data you have (exactly), what data you want (exactly), what regex you already tried (to show that you’re showing effort), why you thought that regex would work (to prove it wasn’t just something randomly typed), and what data you’re getting with an explanation of why that result is wrong. When you show that effort, you’ll see us bend over backword to get things working for you. If you need help formatting the data so that the forum doesn’t mangle it (so that it shows “exactly”, as I said earlier), see this help-with-markdown post, where @Scott-Sumner gives a great summary of how to use Markdown for this forum’s needs.

Seenu Guddu

Thanks Perter Jones… and also thanks for quick response… it works perfectly…