I am attempting to replace positions 44-46 with YYY if positions 48-50 = XXX.
awk -F "" '{if (substr($0,48,3)=="XXX") $44="YYY"}1' OFS="" $filename > $tempfile
But this is not working, 44-46 is still spaces in my tempfile instead of YYY. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (9 Replies)
in my file data is like this
1,2,3
3,4,5,6,7,8
10,11,23,24
i want to make as
1,2,3,?,?,?
3,4,5,6,7,8
10,11,23,24,?,?
here max no of words(separated by comma) in a line is 6.so every line contains 6 words.Line which have less than 6 words replaced with '?' as a word
i have... (3 Replies)
Hi
My file has a series of rows up to 160 characters in length.
There are 7 columns for each row.
In each row, column 1 starts at position 4
column 2 starts at position 12
column 3 starts at position 43
column 4 starts at position 82
column 5 starts at... (7 Replies)
Greetings.
I need to extract text between two character positions, e.g: all text between character 4921 and 6534.
The text blocks are FASTA-format sequence of whole chromosomes, so basically a million A, T, G, C, combinations. E.g:
>Chr_1
ACCTGTTCAACTCTCAGGACTCTCAGGTCAACTCTCAG... (3 Replies)
Hello,
For example:
12........6789101112..............20212223242526..................50 ( Positions)
LName FName DOB (Lastname starts from 1 to 6 , FName from 8 to 15 and date of birth from 21 to29)
CURTIS KENNETH ... (5 Replies)
I have files with hundreds of sequences with frequency values reported as "Freq X" and missing characters represented by a dash ("-"), something like this
>39sample Freq 4
TAGATGTGCCCGTGGGTTTCCCGTCAACACCGGATAGTAGCAGCACTA
>22sample Freq 15
T-GATGTCGTGGGTTTCCCGTCAACACCGGCAAATAGTAGCAGCACTA... (12 Replies)
hi.
I have a Fixed Length text file as input where the character positions 4-5(two character positions starting from 4th position) indicates the LOB indicator. The file structure is something like below:
10126Apple DrinkOmaha
10231Milkshake New Jersey
103 Billabong Illinois
... (6 Replies)