Is this something you need to do repeatedly, using a program or script, or just a once-or-twice thing that you could do with a text editor? If the former, then you probably want to look at a scripting language such as AWK or Perl, or possibly even Bash with a little help from sed. Give one of those a shot, and when you bump into problems, post your work here, and someone will be able to guide you.
If you just need to to a one-time copy & paste, then many plain-text editors can do column/block oriented copy & paste. I use nedit for my daily text editing, and it does a good job of manipulating columns of text.
--- rod.
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