Re: Easy for Some

Re: Easy for Some

[Anselm Helbig]

Hi!

> I'm not coder but i needed to extract some information from a text file and
> some one pointed me in this direction. 
> 
> I have a file like this, could have up to a 1000 keyframes.:
> 
> 
> 
> Effects   Sound Keys #1   Output 1 #22
>    Frame
>    0   0.17489
>    1   0.261281
>    2   0.361762
>    3   0.400085
>    4   0.411538
>    5   0.434799
>    6   0.41712
>    7   0.422151
>    8   0.43181
>    9   0.411811
> 
> Just to clarify the spacings: (     0       0.17489    )
> Just to clarify the spacings: (tab0tab 0.17489 tab)
> 
> and i want to be left with just the raw values like this:
> 
> 
> 0.17489
> 0.261281
> 0.361762
> 0.400085
> 0.411538
> 0.434799
> 0.41712
> 0.422151
> 0.43181
> 0.411811
> 
> 
> I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday, tried to use
> replace string as a guess...?? no joy. Dont have anyone to ask, any help is
> greatly appreciated.

There are three obvious ways to achieve this: 

1. use regular expressions

   if it is sufficient to get rid of the leading whitespace and number:

     M-x query-replace-regexp RET ^\s-*[0-9]+\s-* RET RET

   If you need to get rid of trailing whitespace as well:

     M-x query-replace-regexp RET ^\s-*[0-9]+\s-*\([.0-9]+\)\s-*$ RET \1 RET

   Don't be afraid, regular expressions are easier to write than to
   read. Regular expressions are the tool of choice if you want to
   touch only lines matching a pattern.

2. with keyboard macros

   Go to start of the first line, press `C-x (' to start your keyboard
   macro and do whatever you need to clean up one line and go to the
   start of the next line, end your keyboard macro with `C-x )'. 
   Repeat your keyboard macro by giving a big prefix to C-x e,
   e.g. `C-u 1000 C-x e'. It will stop when it reaches the end of the
   file. 

   Keyboard macros are superior if you need to do some more complex
   manipulations on your text, but they can easily break unless your
   text structure is very rigid. They can also be a bit slow if you
   need to go through a big file. Also, of course, it's easy to
   understand how a keyboard macro works than to grok regular
   expressions. 

3. use rectangle functions

   place your cursor at the start of the first line and set the mark
   with `C-SPACE'. Go to the end of the file on the last line so that
   the cursor (`point' in emacs lingo) is on the first column you want
   to keep. Delete the rectangular portion of the buffer with 
   `C-x r k'.

HTH, 

Anselm


-- 
Anselm Helbig - http://mnemonikk.org/

Re: Easy for Some

[Colin S. Miller]

marioepsley wrote:
> I'm not coder but i needed to extract some information from a text file and
> some one pointed me in this direction. 
> 
> I have a file like this, could have up to a 1000 keyframes.:
> 
> 
> 
> Effects   Sound Keys #1   Output 1 #22
>    Frame
>    0   0.17489
>    1   0.261281
>    2   0.361762
>    3   0.400085
>    4   0.411538
>    5   0.434799
>    6   0.41712
>    7   0.422151
>    8   0.43181
>    9   0.411811
> 
Mario,

Or, skipping emacs all together, use AWK

awk -F \\t '{print $2}' < input.txt | tr -d ' ' > output.txt

This AWK command sets the field delimiter to TAB (aka \\t),
and prints the second field from each line in the file.
The tr command deletes all spaces from its input.

If you use MS-Windows, only use one \

HTH,
Colin S. Miller

Easy for Some

[marioepsley]

I'm not coder but i needed to extract some information from a text file and
some one pointed me in this direction. 

I have a file like this, could have up to a 1000 keyframes.:



Effects   Sound Keys #1   Output 1 #22
   Frame
   0   0.17489
   1   0.261281
   2   0.361762
   3   0.400085
   4   0.411538
   5   0.434799
   6   0.41712
   7   0.422151
   8   0.43181
   9   0.411811

Just to clarify the spacings: (     0       0.17489    )
Just to clarify the spacings: (tab0tab 0.17489 tab)

and i want to be left with just the raw values like this:


0.17489
0.261281
0.361762
0.400085
0.411538
0.434799
0.41712
0.422151
0.43181
0.411811


I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday, tried to use
replace string as a guess...?? no joy. Dont have anyone to ask, any help is
greatly appreciated.
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Re: Easy for Some

[Vicente Hernando Ara]

An easy way, without coding any function is using rectangles.

* You open the keyframe file.
* Put the pointer in the first 0 of 0.xxxx  number.
* Set the mark with: C-space.
* Go to the last number of the last keyframe. E.g: 0.411811 last 1
* Now kill the rectangle: C-x r k
* Create the new file where you want to save the data, and open it.
* Yank the rectangle: C-x r y
* Save the file.

It is done. :-)





On 04/01/2010, marioepsley <marioepsley@aol.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not coder but i needed to extract some information from a text file and
> some one pointed me in this direction.
>
> I have a file like this, could have up to a 1000 keyframes.:
>
>
>
> Effects   Sound Keys #1   Output 1 #22
>    Frame
>    0   0.17489
>    1   0.261281
>    2   0.361762
>    3   0.400085
>    4   0.411538
>    5   0.434799
>    6   0.41712
>    7   0.422151
>    8   0.43181
>    9   0.411811
>
> Just to clarify the spacings: (     0       0.17489    )
> Just to clarify the spacings: (tab0tab 0.17489 tab)
>
> and i want to be left with just the raw values like this:
>
>
> 0.17489
> 0.261281
> 0.361762
> 0.400085
> 0.411538
> 0.434799
> 0.41712
> 0.422151
> 0.43181
> 0.411811
>
>
> I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday, tried to use
> replace string as a guess...?? no joy. Dont have anyone to ask, any help is
> greatly appreciated.
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://old.nabble.com/Easy-for-Some-tp27011067p27011067.html
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>
>
>
>

Re: Easy for Some

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 04.01.2010 um 11:25 schrieb marioepsley:

> I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday, tried  
> to use
> replace string as a guess


You could use awk to print only the second column, i.e., the second by  
white space separated word of each line, when it exists in this  
record. Then it would also output the second word of the header lines  
which you'd need to filter:

	awk '{if (NF > 1) print $2}' <file name> | egrep -v '[^-0-9.]'

--
Greetings

   Pete

"Klingons do not believe in indentation - except perhaps in the skulls  
of their project managers."

Re: Easy for Some

[Kevin Rodgers]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 04.01.2010 um 11:25 schrieb marioepsley:
> 
>> I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday, tried 
>> to use
>> replace string as a guess
> 
> 
> You could use awk to print only the second column, i.e., the second by 
> white space separated word of each line, when it exists in this record. 
> Then it would also output the second word of the header lines which 
> you'd need to filter:
> 
>     awk '{if (NF > 1) print $2}' <file name> | egrep -v '[^-0-9.]'

You (almost) never need to pipe awk's output through (e)grep:

awk 'NF == 2 && $2 ~ /^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$/ {print $2}' FILE

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: Easy for Some

[Andreas Politz]

marioepsley <marioepsley@aol.com> writes:

> I'm not coder but i needed to extract some information from a text file and
> some one pointed me in this direction. 
>
> I have a file like this, could have up to a 1000 keyframes.:
>
>
>
> Effects   Sound Keys #1   Output 1 #22
>    Frame
>    0   0.17489
>    1   0.261281
>    2   0.361762
>    3   0.400085
>    4   0.411538
>    5   0.434799
>    6   0.41712
>    7   0.422151
>    8   0.43181
>    9   0.411811
>
> Just to clarify the spacings: (     0       0.17489    )
> Just to clarify the spacings: (tab0tab 0.17489 tab)
>
> and i want to be left with just the raw values like this:
>
>
> 0.17489
> 0.261281
> 0.361762
> 0.400085
> 0.411538
> 0.434799
> 0.41712
> 0.422151
> 0.43181
> 0.411811
>
>
> I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday, tried to use
> replace string as a guess...?? no joy. Dont have anyone to ask, any help is
> greatly appreciated.

There are many ways to solve this (See the other replies.).  Most of
them use regular expressions in one way or another.

First move to the beginning of your file and get rid of the lines you
don't want.  (All based on your example data.  'RET' means 'return/enter
key', 'M-<' means press Alt/Meta + '<', 'M-x' likewise.)

M-<
M-x keep-lines RET ^\s-*[0-9]+\s-+[0-9]+\(\.[0-9]+\)?\s-*$ RET

Back to the beginning.
M-<

Now, on every line, replace everything with the decimal number. 

M-x replace-regexp RET ^\s-*[0-9]+\s-+\([0-9]+\(\.[0-9]+\)?\)\s-*$ RET \1 RET

I hope this works.

-ap

Re: Easy for Some

[Steve Revilak]

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>From: marioepsley <marioepsley@aol.com>

>I have a file like this, could have up to a 1000 keyframes.:
>
>Effects   Sound Keys #1   Output 1 #22
>   Frame
>   0   0.17489
>   1   0.261281
>   2   0.361762
>   3   0.400085
>   4   0.411538
>   5   0.434799
>   6   0.41712
>   7   0.422151
>   8   0.43181
>   9   0.411811
>
>Just to clarify the spacings: (     0       0.17489    )
>Just to clarify the spacings: (tab0tab 0.17489 tab)
>
>and i want to be left with just the raw values like this:
>
>
>0.17489
>0.261281
>0.361762
>0.400085
>0.411538
>0.434799
>0.41712
>0.422151
>0.43181
>0.411811


This isn't really an emacs answer, but

   cut -f3 foo.txt

should do what you want (assuming that your data is in a file called
"foo.txt").


>I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday

Since you mentioned aquamacs, I'm going to guess that you're using a
Mac.  If so, you'll need to run `cut' from within Terminal.app.

Of, if you want to do it within emacs, open the file with emacs and try

   C-x h ESC 1 ESC | cut -f3 RET

Broken down, this is

   C-x h       ;; selects entire buffer

   ESC 1 ESC | ;; ESC | pipes region to a command.  ESC 1 is
               ;; a prefix argument that means "replace the region
               ;; with the output of the command"

   cut -f3 RET ;; This is the command you're running on the region


Steve

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Re: Easy for Some

[Memnon Anon]

marioepsley <marioepsley@aol.com> writes:

> I have a file like this, could have up to a 1000 keyframes.:
[...]
> Effects   Sound Keys #1   Output 1 #22
>    Frame
>    0   0.17489
>    1   0.261281
>    2   0.361762
[...]
> and i want to be left with just the raw values like this:
>
> 0.17489
> 0.261281
> 0.361762
[...]
> I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday, tried to use
> replace string as a guess...?? no joy. Dont have anyone to ask, any help is
> greatly appreciated.

I am no programmer, too; I think I would go with emacs keyboard macros.
You do not need any extra tools or special programing knowledger:
Just the basic emacs commands.

See this:
,----[ (info "(emacs)Keyboard Macros") ]
|    You define a keyboard macro by executing and recording the commands
| which are its definition.  Put differently, as you define a keyboard
| macro, the definition is being executed for the first time.  This way,
| you can see the effects of your commands, so that you don't have to
| figure them out in your head.  When you close the definition, the
| keyboard macro is defined and also has been, in effect, executed once.
| You can then do the whole thing over again by invoking the macro.
`----

hth

Re: Easy for Some

[Memnon Anon]

Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> writes:

> marioepsley <marioepsley@aol.com> writes:
>> I am a complete newbie, i downloaded aquamacs emacs yesterday

Ah, you are probably not that familiar with the emacs info system, yet. 
(You really should learn how to use it properly if you want to stick to
emacs. It is really worth getting accustomed to it!)

So, in case you did not notice:

[ (info "(emacs)Keyboard Macros") ] 

  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Use mouse on this ;).

And yes, you can use awk, pipes, regexes etc. There are lots of ways.

But, as you are no "coder" and an emacs beginner, I'd really say: Go for
the Keyboard Macros [F3+F4 or C-x ( and C-x )]. They will be usefull
again and again.