It should be easy: according to your sample a "column" is: zero or more non-","-characters followed by a ",". The regexp for this is:
In sed you can use numbers to make the substitution-rule chang only the n-th occurrence, therefore:
will delete only the 16th column. Analogously for the other columns, but note that deleting a column changes the numbers of the others in subsequent deletions. So either start with the last and work leftwards or calculate.
Hi,
I've already posted elsewhere but am posting again here coz im a newbie. I hope you forgive me this time.
I want to know if its possible to delete or ignore columns in a large dataset using 'sed'. For example, I have the following dataset: -
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Hi,
I want to know if its possible to delete or ignore columns in a large dataset using 'sed'. For example, I have the following dataset: -
20060714,X.XX,1,043004,Q,T,24.0000,1,25.5000,4,
20060714,X.XX,1,081209,Q,T,24.0000,1,25.5000,5,
As you can see, there are 10 columns here and the... (4 Replies)
Hii I have a file which contains huge amounts of data.I just want to delete last 3 columns in the without changing its format.The file contains data as shown below
PDE 2001 10 29 202148.60 38.92 24.20 33 4.8 MLATH .F. .......
PDE 2001 10 29 203423.57 38.88 24.41 33 3.7 MLATH... (3 Replies)
how do I delete the first 3 lines and the first column and the tab?
infile:
Colorspace 0
SA-Sample 1 in 32
FTab-Chars 10
Sequence-1 SINE1_7SL 282
Sequence-2 sapieTTns 289
Sequence-3 7SL_Hopns 289outfile:
SINE1_7SL 282
sapieTTns 289
7SL_Hopns 289Thanks (4 Replies)
I have this space delimited large text file with more than 1,000,000+ columns and about 100 rows. I want to delete all the columns that start with NA such that:
File before modification
aa bb cc NA100 dd
aa b1 c2 NA101 de
File after modification
aa bb cc dd
aa b1 c2 de
How would I... (3 Replies)
Hello Guys
I have a flat file with few thousands of rows.
Now each rows have different number of columns
I want to delete the rows which has not equal to 749 columns
Can you guys please let me know how to do the same
Your help is much appreciated. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file like this
a 1 2
b 2 2
c 2 3
d 4 5
f 5 6
output
a 1 2
c 2 3
d 4 5
f 5 6
Basically, I want to delete the whole line if $2 and $3 are the same. Thanks (5 Replies)
Dear all,
I have one file (see below) with more then 100 columns, and need only column which has GType in label with Alphabets, please help me to remove this columns with numbers.
input file is
n.201.GType n-201.Theta n-201.R n_1.GType n_1.Theta n_1.R n_7.GType ... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'd like to ask for some help with the following task, please:
there is a big file with a header (this is file.in):
NAME A_1.X A_1.Y A_1.Z B_1.X B_1.Y B_1.Z
name1 AB 0.11 0.12 BB 0.45 0.67
name2 BB 0.34 0.56 AA 0.89 0.68
what I need is to recognize a pattern in the header of this... (10 Replies)