| User: maadi -- 2012-05-26 << 951 953 >> |
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| Type: Text file parser |
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| Description: |
| I have ten thousands text files. Each includes 9 columns. I want to delete 8 first rows of all files. Then after deleting 8 rows I want to delete all columns but the 5th and the 8th columns and save them in two new separate text files. So after this operation I will have 20,000 files. 10,000 including the 5th columns and another 10,000 including the 8th columns. thank you |
| Input Sample: |
| r1 r2 r3 r4 r5 r6 r7 r8 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 |
| Output Sample: |
| one file should include 5th column c5 Another file should include 8th column c8 |
| Answer: |
| Hint: You need to Download and install "Replace Pioneer" on windows platform to finish following steps. |
| Suggest to finish the tasks with 3 steps: 1. remove first 8 rows/lines, please check following example: How to delete the first 1-10 lines in many files? http://www.mind-pioneer.com/services/615_Advanced_search_and_replace.html 2. extract column 5, check following example: How to extract the 7th column from text files with 8 columns? http://www.mind-pioneer.com/services/676_Advanced_search_and_replace.html 3. extract column 8, similar as step 2. |
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