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Trimming Tabs from data fields
I currently use this function to trim spaces from a string function trim(str){ nsub1=sub("^[ ]*", "", str) nsub2=sub("[ ]*$", "", str) return str } I tried to use nsub1=sub("^[ ]*", "\t", str) nsub3=sub("[...- arcticpuppy
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I currently use this function to tr
I currently use this function to trim spaces from a string function trim(str){ nsub1=sub("^[ ]*", "", str) nsub2=sub("[ ]*$", "", str) return str } I tried to use nsub1=sub("^[ ]*", "\t", str) nsub3=sub("[ ]*$"...- arcticpuppy
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removing padding spaces from a DB
I am reading a database that has triling blanks in the data so when I do a length($0) and use this to define the substr($0,4,length($0)- 4) I want to use. The data contains text and thus removing spaces from the end using a gsub may be tricky This shows up bigtime when I try to append two...- arcticpuppy
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Converting HTML special characters to ASCII
I am parsing a html file that has special characters for &, !, etc and I would like to convert these automatically for ascii output(tab delimeted file) any hints ?- arcticpuppy
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