Select coulumns

Description

This tool selects the defined columns from a table. It can also be used to convert text files into tables.

Parameters

  • Column list Selects columns to be printed. Use comma separated lists of column numbers like 3,1,5
  • Column name list Add new header row for the selected columns. Use comma separated lists of column names like source,date,name. By default the first imported row is used a as a header row.
  • Column separator By default, chipster uses tabulator as a column separator. If you wish to convert a text file into chipster table you can use other column separators (that will be converted into tabulators). The optional column separators are: space or tabulator, semicolon (;),double point(:), comma (,) and pipe (|)
  • First row to read Skip the first few lines of the input dataset. Note that in table files, the header row is considered as a the first row.

    Details

    Note that you must in all cases explicitly define the numbers of the columns that will be selected to the result table.

    Output

    Output is a table file.