Utilities

Gene Scanner Utilities

General Utilities

tabit This utility takes a file and converts spaces or multiple spaces between fields in a record into tabs. It is useful to convert the output of a FORTRAN fixed format file.

Usage: tabit <file>

Limitations: Records need to be less than 64K bytes long; an intermediate file called <file_tabbed> is created, the initial file is destroyed and the intermediate file is renamed to the original.

randstring This program randomly orders N discrete integers in the range 1-N.

Usage: randstring N

Limitation: N must be less than 2,000. If you hate that, change the program.