title: Convert Chunk of Data into Tabular Format Using Perl
body: <p>I have a data that looks like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>1:SRX000566
  Submitter: WoldLab
  Study: RNASeq expression profiling for ENCODE project(SRP000228)
  Sample: Human cell line GM12878(SRS000567)
  Instrument: Solexa 1G Genome Analyzer
  Total: 4 runs, 62.7M spots, 2.1G bases
  Run #1: SRR002055, 11373440 spots, 375323520 bases
  Run #2: SRR002063, 22995209 spots, 758841897 bases
  Run #3: SRR005091, 13934766 spots, 459847278 bases
  Run #4: SRR005096, 14370900 spots, 474239700 bases
  
  2:SRX000565
  Submitter: WoldLab
  Study: RNASeq expression profiling for ENCODE project(SRP000228)
  Sample: Human cell line GM12878(SRS000567)
  Instrument: Solexa 1G Genome Analyzer
  Total: 3 runs, 51.2M spots, 1.7G bases
  Run #1: SRR002052, 12607931 spots, 416061723 bases
  Run #2: SRR002054, 12880281 spots, 425049273 bases
  Run #3: SRR002060, 25740337 spots, 849431121 bases
  
  3:SRX012407
  Submitter: GEO
  Study: GSE17153: Illumina sequencing of small RNAs from C. elegans embryos(SRP001363)
  Sample: Caenorhabditis elegans(SRS006961)
  Instrument: Illumina Genome Analyzer II
  Total: 1 run, 3M spots, 106.8M bases
  Run #1: SRR029428, 2965597 spots, 106761492 bases
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a compact way to convert them into tabular format (tab separated).
  Hence 1 entry/row per chunk. In these case 3 rows.</p>
  
  <p>I tried this but doesn't seem to work.</p>
  
  <pre><code>perl -laF/\n/ `-000ne"print join chr(9),@F" myfile.txt`
  </code></pre>