Now back on topic The sed for dummies solution (with the the number of dots after the ^ = n) sed "s/^......\(.*\)/\1/" infile > outfile Guaranteed to work. Just now I needed to strip some strings. Ward Blondé wrote:
I want to see Sofie stripping with a python!
Ward
Thomas Abeel wrote:
Am I the only one who prefers girls to strip?
Jezus, this is really the geek department.
Sofie Van Landeghem wrote:
Then why not write a perl program to strip?
-Sofie
Ward Blondé wrote:
I would write a perl program to do that :p
Ward
Sebastian Proost wrote:
As a punishment for not using one of our splendid solutions you should spend the rest of the afternoon installing and running 3DMark2001-2006! To check if the computers here are suited to play games :p
My 2 cents
Seb
Michiel Van Bel wrote:
took you long enough :p no seriously, a quick perl/java/python program would have fixed it also, wouldn't it?
Michiel
Ward Blondé wrote: > > Hoi Binaries, > > I found the method to strip: > Copy into excel or calc and choose for 'fixed with' instead of > the standard tab delimiting! You even don't have to count the > number of characters to strip as you can do it visual. Then copy > back the right column. > > Ward > _______________________________________________ > Binari Is Not A Regular Island > Binari@psb.ugent.be > https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/binari
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