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From: roy@sts.sts.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Column shifting
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Date: 19 May 89 17:45:00 GMT
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Nf-From: sts.sts.UUCP!roy    May 19 10:45:00 1989


I'm wondering if there's been a program written that takes a file and
outputs that same file except with arbitrary columns shifted over.
Some examples are:

input file is: 0123456789

Move column 7 to column 1: 0712345689

Move column 7 to column 1, column 3 to column 5: 0712453689

Move column 7 to column 1, column 3 to column 8: 0712456839

This sounds a bit like the bubble sort, so I think it probably exists.
Just out of curiosity, are there any other algorithms out there?
Thanks.

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