Splitting a line into two columns 1

[Butterfly78]

Hi,

I'm very new to awk, actually I think it would be the fastest manner to manage this problem:

I have a file like this

19000.0192 1 19000.0336 2 19000.0481 3 19000.0625 4 19000.077 4 19000.0914 3

in a singe line, and I'd like to split into two columns. Second column range between 1 and 4 characters.

Thank you so much in advance!
B.

 

[PHV]

A starting point:
awk '{for(i=1;i<NF;i+=2)print $i,$(i+1)}' /path/to/input > output

Hope This Helps, PH.
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