What I am really trying to do is break apart the contents of a string and set my delimiter as the character that separates my string with other parameters
An example of your input and required output would help reduce the amount of guessing we are doing here.
This is one way to split a string into two pieces ("my string" and "other parameters") with '*' as the delimiter character:
Dears,
I would like to count the number of "(" and ")" that occur in a file.
(syntax checking script). I tried to use "grep -c" and this works fine as long as there is only one character (for which I do a search) on a line.
Has anyone an idea how I can count the number of specific characters... (6 Replies)
I have a comma delimited file that roughly has 300 fields. Not all fields are populated.
This file is fed into another system, what I need to do is count the amount of characters in each field and give me an output similiar to this:
1 - 6,2 - 25
The first number is the field and the second... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to do two things in my script. I will really appreciate any help in this regards.
Is there a way to delete a last line from a pipe delimited flat file if the last line is blank. If the line is not blank then do nothing.....
Is there a way to count a word that are starting... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I need some help in counting the number of letters in a big file with separations.
Following is the file I have
>AB_1
MLKKPIIIGVTGGSGGGKTSVSRAILDSFPNARIAMIQHDSYYKDQSHMSFEERVKTNYDHPLAFDTDFM
IQQLKELLAGRPVDIPIYDYKKHTRSNTTFRQDPQDVIIVEGILVLEDERLRDLMDIKLFVDTDDDIRII... (6 Replies)
I have a tab delimited file of the following format
2 L a
2 G b
2 L c
2 G a
3 G a
3 G b
3 L c
4 L a
4 G a
4 G b
4 L c
4 G a
..
...
I want to count the number of G's and L's with in the first column and the third column/categories such that I would get an output file: (6 Replies)
I do have a big file in the following format
>A1
ATGCGG
>A2
TCATGC
>A3
-TGCTG
The number of characters will be same under each subheader and only possible characters are A,T,G,C and -
I want to count the number of A's, T's,G's, C's & -'s vertically for all the positions so that I... (5 Replies)
Hi All, here's a question from newbie
I have a data like this, which set of small DNA sequences separated by new line
GAATCCGGAAACAGCAACTTCAAANCA
GTNATTCGGGCCAAACTGTCGAA
TTNGGCAACTGTTAGAGCTCATGCGACA
CCTGCTAAACGAGTTCGAGTTGAANGA
TTNCGGAAGTGGTCGCTGGCACGG
ACNTGCATGTACGGAGTGACGAAACCI... (6 Replies)
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getdelim
GETDELIM(3) BSD Library Functions Manual GETDELIM(3)NAME
getdelim, getline -- read a delimited record from a stream
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
ssize_t
getdelim(char ** restrict lineptr, size_t * restrict n, int delimiter, FILE * restrict stream);
ssize_t
getline(char ** restrict lineptr, size_t * restrict n, FILE * restrict stream);
DESCRIPTION
The getdelim() function reads from the stream until it encounters a character matching delimiter, storing the input in *lineptr. The buffer
is NUL-terminated and includes the delimiter. The delimiter character must be representable as an unsigned char.
If *n is non-zero, then *lineptr must be pre-allocated to at least *n bytes. The buffer should be allocated dynamically; it must be possible
to free(3) *lineptr. getdelim() ensures that *lineptr is large enough to hold the input, updating *n to reflect the new size.
The getline() function is equivalent to getdelim() with delimiter set to the newline character.
RETURN VALUES
The getdelim() and getline() functions return the number of characters read, including the delimiter. If no characters were read and the
stream is at end-of-file, the functions return -1. If an error occurs, the functions return -1 and the global variable errno is set to indi-
cate the error.
The functions do not distinguish between end-of-file and error, and callers must use feof(3) and ferror(3) to determine which occurred.
EXAMPLES
The following code fragment reads lines from a file and writes them to standard output.
char *line = NULL;
size_t linesize = 0;
ssize_t linelen;
while ((linelen = getline(&line, &linesize, fp)) != -1)
fwrite(line, linelen, 1, stdout);
if (ferror(fp))
perror("getline");
ERRORS
[EINVAL] lineptr or n is a NULL pointer.
[EOVERFLOW] More than SSIZE_MAX characters were read without encountering the delimiter.
The getdelim() and getline() functions may also fail and set errno for any of the errors specified in the routines fflush(3), malloc(3),
read(2), stat(2), or realloc(3).
SEE ALSO ferror(3), fgets(3), fopen(3)STANDARDS
The getdelim() and getline() functions conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'').
BSD June 30, 2010 BSD