columns from a table cutWrapper.pl $input "$columnList" $delimiter $out_file1 Tab Whitespace Dot Comma Dash Underscore Pipe

.. class:: warningmark **WARNING: This tool breaks column assignments.** To re-establish column assignments run the tools and click on the pencil icon in the latest history item. .. class:: infomark The output of this tool is always in tabular format (e.g., if your original delimiters are commas, they will be replaced with tabs). For example: Cutting columns 1 and 3 from:: apple,is,good windows,is,bad will give:: apple good windows bad ----- **What it does** This tool selects (cuts out) specified columns from the dataset. - Columns are specified as **c1**, **c2**, and so on. Column count begins with **1** - Columns can be specified in any order (e.g., **c2,c1,c6**) - If you specify more columns than actually present - empty spaces will be filled with dots ----- **Example** Input dataset (six columns: c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, and c6):: chr1 10 1000 gene1 0 + chr2 100 1500 gene2 0 + **cut** on columns "**c1,c4,c6**" will return:: chr1 gene1 + chr2 gene2 + **cut** on columns "**c6,c5,c4,c1**" will return:: + 0 gene1 chr1 + 0 gene2 chr2 **cut** on columns "**c8,c7,c4**" will return:: . . gene1 . . gene2