[OS X TeX] Insert a column

[Chris Goedde]

On Dec 21, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Is there a way (other than by hand) to insert a new column in a 9  
> column table (with a couple of hundred rows) that is already partly  
> filled-in?

Do you have excel? My first thought is to paste the body of the table  
into a plain text file, import that file into excel (making the right  
choices in the import wizard), adding a column or two in excel, then  
re-exporting. That may or may not work depending on the contents of  
your table.

Someone really good a sed or awk (not me!) could probably write a  
small script to do this as well, again depending on the table contents.

Some editors allow a "column" selection that could also work. BBEdit  
might do this; I'm not sure.

Chris


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