Anonymous Monk,
This seems like what you want, but if not - say so and I will try something else:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
open (INPUT,"jobs.txt") or die "Unable to open input : $!";
open (OUTPUT,"jobs.txt") or die "Unable to open output : $!";
select OUTPUT;
$\ = "\n";
while (<INPUT>) {
chomp;
my @fields = split /\t/;
unless (@fields > 2) {
print join "\t" , @fields;
}
else {
my $firstfield = shift @fields;
while (my $nextfield = shift @fields) {
print $firstfield, "\t", $nextfield;
}
}
}
close INPUT;
close OUTPUT;
Cheers - L~R
Update: Both vladb++ and pzbagel++ have simpler solutions than this. The only thing I would point out is you said tab delimited.
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