Extracting data from specific rows and columns from multiple csv files
I have a series of csv files in the following format
eg file1
file2
I would like to extract Tube names ( 3rd row, 2nd column) and Last 4 rows {labels in column 1 only from 1st file and values in columns 3 from all files and write to to an output file.
expected output is :
Can someone help me figure out the code ?
Thanks a ton
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