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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Replacing characters in a file Post 302909250 by rossi on Tuesday 15th of July 2014 04:21:11 PM
Old 07-15-2014
You are right Scrutinizer.
I am bad in posting the file format as I always get confused how to do it properly here. Next time, I will do it more carefully.

But the last script from you works perfectly fine. It's wonderful.

Thank you so much to you and thanks everyone for the suggestions as well.
 

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LEGENDRE(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       LEGENDRE(3)

NAME
PDL::GSLSF::LEGENDRE - PDL interface to GSL Special Functions DESCRIPTION
This is an interface to the Special Function package present in the GNU Scientific Library. SYNOPSIS
Functions FUNCTIONS
gsl_sf_legendre_Pl Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e(); int l) P_l(x) gsl_sf_legendre_Pl does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_legendre_Pl_array Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(num); int l=>num) P_l(x) from 0 to n-1. gsl_sf_legendre_Pl_array does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_legendre_Ql Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e(); int l) Q_l(x) gsl_sf_legendre_Ql does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_legendre_Plm Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e(); int l; int m) P_lm(x) gsl_sf_legendre_Plm does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_legendre_Plm_array Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(num); int l=>num; int m) P_lm(x) for l from 0 to n-2+m. gsl_sf_legendre_Plm_array does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_legendre_sphPlm Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e(); int l; int m) P_lm(x), normalized properly for use in spherical harmonics gsl_sf_legendre_sphPlm does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_legendre_sphPlm_array Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(num); int n=>num; int m) P_lm(x), normalized properly for use in spherical harmonics for l from 0 to n-2+m. gsl_sf_legendre_sphPlm_array does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_conicalP_half Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e(); double lambda) Irregular Spherical Conical Function P^{1/2}_{-1/2 + I lambda}(x) gsl_sf_conicalP_half does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_conicalP_mhalf Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e(); double lambda) Regular Spherical Conical Function P^{-1/2}_{-1/2 + I lambda}(x) gsl_sf_conicalP_mhalf does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_conicalP_0 Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e(); double lambda) Conical Function P^{0}_{-1/2 + I lambda}(x) gsl_sf_conicalP_0 does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_conicalP_1 Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e(); double lambda) Conical Function P^{1}_{-1/2 + I lambda}(x) gsl_sf_conicalP_1 does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_conicalP_sph_reg Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e(); int l; double lambda) Regular Spherical Conical Function P^{-1/2-l}_{-1/2 + I lambda}(x) gsl_sf_conicalP_sph_reg does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_conicalP_cyl_reg_e Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e(); int m; double lambda) Regular Cylindrical Conical Function P^{-m}_{-1/2 + I lambda}(x) gsl_sf_conicalP_cyl_reg_e does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_legendre_H3d Signature: (double [o]y(); double [o]e(); int l; double lambda; double eta) lth radial eigenfunction of the Laplacian on the 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. gsl_sf_legendre_H3d does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_legendre_H3d_array Signature: (double [o]y(num); int l=>num; double lambda; double eta) Array of H3d(ell), for l from 0 to n-1. gsl_sf_legendre_H3d_array does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. AUTHOR
This file copyright (C) 1999 Christian Pellegrin <chri@infis.univ.trieste.it> All rights reserved. There is no warranty. You are allowed to redistribute this software / documentation under certain conditions. For details, see the file COPYING in the PDL distribution. If this file is separated from the PDL distribution, the copyright notice should be included in the file. The GSL SF modules were written by G. Jungman. perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 LEGENDRE(3)
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