Count number of character occurence but not from quotation marks
I have the following string:
I need a script which is counting the occurrence of semicolons ( ; ) but exclude the ones from the quotation marks.
In the string given as example there are 8 semicolons but the script should return only 6, while 2 semicolons are in quotation marks (they are marked with red color).
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i have a file like this
aaaa bbbb cccc
aaa aaaa
aa cccccccccccccccc
aaaaaaa aaaa aaaa
i want to enclose this lines with double quotation:
"aaaa bbbb cccc"
"aaa aaaa"
"aa cccccccccccccccc"
"aaaaaaa aaaa aaaa"
any idea? (preferably without using sed)
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Hello,
I have a text file with n lines in the following format (9 column fields):
Example:
contig00012 149606 G C 49 68 60 18 c$cccccacccccccccc^c
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Example:
"015607" "10" " " "A"I want to pass these parameters to a shell function by writing the following command:
... (4 Replies)
I have a csv file with 3 columns. Fields are comma delimited and strings are enclosed with quotation marks "". About 40% of the time, the line of values will start a new line thanks to carriage return characters within a string.
Example:
"apple","banana","orange"
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Hello,
I have a programming assignment to count number of occurrences of hours in particular file. Below is the code:
fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt"
largest = None
fh = open(fname)
counts = dict()
test = list()
for line in fh:
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COLORS(3) libbash colors Library Manual COLORS(3)NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors.
SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color>
colorReset
colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text>
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text>
DESCRIPTION
General
colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty.
The function list:
colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR
colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal
colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline)
colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added
Detailed interface description follows.
Available colors:
Green
Red
Yellow
White
The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red).
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color>
Sets the current printing color to color.
colorReset
Resets current tty color back to normal.
colorPrint [<indent>] <color>
Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline).
Parameters:
<indent>
The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position.
<color>
The color to use.
<color>
The text to print.
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color>
The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added.
EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline:
Using colorSet:
$ colorSet green
$ echo 'Hello World'
$ colorReset
Using colorPrint:
$ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo
Using colorPrintN:
$ colorPrintN 'Hello World'
AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux