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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Extracting 22-character strings from text using sed/awk? Post 302854583 by Twinklefingers on Tuesday 17th of September 2013 04:32:47 PM
Old 09-17-2013
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Originally Posted by wisecracker
But this was not your original post...

You said it was a flat file of aplha(-numeric) characters only "without line breaks".
You're 100% right. The long reason is that, just in the two days from when I posted and when I grabbed your code to use it, this aspect of the project changed and I was negligent in remembering the details of the original post. The short answer is that I am an idiot, apologies

Quote:
Also the first pair of "GG"s does not have 20 characters before it...
Is this also required?
Yes, but I can remedy this on my own if need be.

Thanks again.
 

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ppmtopgm(1)						      General Commands Manual						       ppmtopgm(1)

NAME
ppmtopgm - convert a portable pixmap into a portable graymap SYNOPSIS
ppmtopgm [ppmfile] DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces a portable graymap as output. The output is a "black and white" rendering of the original image, as in a black and white photograph. The quantization formula used is .299 r + .587 g + .114 b. Note that although there is a pgmtoppm program, it is not necessary for simple conversions from pgm to ppm , because any ppm program can read pgm (and pbm ) files automatically. pgmtoppm is for colorizing a pgm file. Also, see ppmtorgb3 for a different way of converting color to gray. And ppmdist generates a grayscale image from a color image, but in a way that makes it easy to differentiate the original colors, not necessarily a way that looks like a black and white photograph. QUOTE
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colors from our sight Red is gray, and yellow white But we decide which is right And which is a quantization error. SEE ALSO
pgmtoppm(1),ppmtorgb3(1),rgb3toppm(1),ppmdist(1),ppm(5),pgm(5) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer. 10 April 2000 ppmtopgm(1)
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