Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

[Philip Webb]

071115 Mark Knecht wrote:
> I have a data file with data that changes infrequently.
> The file lists only the day the data changes.
> There are only 144 lines representing 23 years of data.
> There are three values for the data - 1, 0 & -1. The file looks like this:
>   09/27/74,   1
>   07/11/75,   -1
>   08/01/75,   1
>   03/12/76,   -1
>   04/02/76,   1
>   05/07/76,   -1
>   06/04/76,   1
> I need to turn this data into a file with the same format
> but one that has data for every date, something like this:
>   09/28/74,   1
>   09/29/74,   1
>   09/30/74,   1

I would do it with Vim, mainly 's' & 'q'.  It would probably help slightly
if you used international date format: '1974-09-27' etc.  HTH

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