01-07-2010
Hey, durden_tyler:
From what I gathered, the columns mean what you think they mean, but comparison is only made between corresponding upper-lower case letters (A-a, C-c, G-g, T-t) wherein at least one member of the pair occurs in the line. Also, there are as many duplicates of each line as there are comparisons to be made.
Line 8 will have appended to it the result of comparing A-a (columns 2 and 6), a "+". Line 9 is C-c (columns 3 and 7), and gets "-". Line 10 is for the comma-dot comparison (in this case, a "+"). If there are no instances of either member of a pair, there is no comparison made and no line is dupe appears for it.
alister
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fstrcmp
fstrcmp(1) General Commands Manual fstrcmp(1)
NAME
fstrcmp - fuzzy comparison of strings
SYNOPSIS
fstrcmp [ -p ] first-string second-string
fstrcmp -w first-string second-string
fstrcmp -a first-file second-file
fstrcmp -s needle haystack...
fstrcmp --version
DESCRIPTION
The fstrcmp command is used to make fuzzy comparisons between strings. The "edit distance" between the strings is printed, with 0.0 mean-
ing the strings are utterly un-alike, and 1.0 meaning the strings are identical.
You may need to quote the string to insulate them from the shell.
OPTIONS
The fstrcmp command understands the following options:
-a
--files-as-bytes
This option is used to compare two files as arrays of bytes. See fmemcmp(3) for more information.
-p
--pair This option is used to compare two strings as arrays of bytes. This is the default. See fstrcmp(3) for more information.
-s
--select
This option is used to select the closest needle from the provided haystack alternatives. The most similar (single) choice is
printed. If none are particularly similar, nothing is printed. See fstrcmp(3) for more information. See below for example.
-V
--version
This option may be used to print the version of the fstrcmp command, and then exit.
-w
--wide-pair
This option is used to compare two multi-byte character strings. See fstrcoll(3) for more information.
EXIT STATUS
The fstrcmp command exits with status 1 on any error. The fstrcmp command only exits with status 0 if there are no errors.
EXAMPLE
The fstrcmp --select option may be used in a shell script to improve error messages.
case "$action" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
*)
echo "$0: action "$action" unknown" 1>&2
guess=`fstrcmp --select "$action" stop start restart`
if [ "$guess" ]
then
echo "$0: did you mean "$guess" instead?" 1>&2
fi
exit 1
;;
esac
Thus, the error message frequently suggests the correct action in the face of simple finger problems on the command line.
SEE ALSO
fstrcmp(3)
fuzzy comparison of strings
fstrcoll(3)
fuzzy comparison of two multi-byte character strings
fstrcmpi(3)
fuzzy comparison of strings, integer variation
COPYRIGHT
fstrcmp version 0.4
Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Miller
Peter Miller <pmiller@opensource.org.au>
The comparison code is derived from the fuzzy comparison functions in GNU Gettext 0.17. The GNU Gettext comparison functions were, in
turn, derived from GNU Diff 2.7.
Copyright (C) 1988-2009 Free Software Foundation
fstrcmp(1)