l2c.pl – Lines to Columns
Posted: March 30th, 2010 | Author: cense | Filed under: Sysadmin | Tags: code, perl | No Comments »Here is a little perl script I wrote some time back for converting a text file’s contents from lines to columns.
I’d like to present this script and then psuedo-challenge other visitors of this site to write a more efficient algorithm in the language of their choice. Unfortunately, any way (that I know of) for measuring the efficiency of two or more algorithms across different languages is going to be skewed due to differences in efficiency of compilers, interpreters and what not.