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I have this genes database which completely messed up by extra non-alphanumeric values. This happened as a sort of encryption to the data which was made incorrectly, and I don't know how to clean it up. I tried sed and awk, but failed. This is sample of the data which is very large amount of documents



chr2#@!!~//=^%$74711&&*&127472363@Pos1%%0^^+
chr3#@!!~//=^%$74723&&*&127473530@Pos2%%0^^+
chr1#@!!~//=^%$73530&&*&127474697@Pos3%%0^^+
chr2#@!!~//=^%$17469&&*&127475864@Pos4%%0^^+
chr3#@!!~//=^%$12747&&*&127477031@Neg1%%0^^-
chr5#@!!~//=^%$17477&&*&127478198@Neg2%%0^^-
chr7#@!!~//=^%$74781&&*&127479365@Neg3%%0^^-
chr7#@!!~//=^%$74795&&*&127480532@Pos5%%0^^+
chr1#@!!~//=^%$12748&&*&127481699@Neg4%%0^^-


The cleaned data must be like this 



chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -


please help very big problem here!






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  • try sed -E 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]+/ /g' file
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I have this genes database which completely messed up by extra non-alphanumeric values. This happened as a sort of encryption to the data which was made incorrectly, and I don't know how to clean it up. I tried sed and awk, but failed. This is sample of the data which is very large amount of documents



chr2#@!!~//=^%$74711&&*&127472363@Pos1%%0^^+
chr3#@!!~//=^%$74723&&*&127473530@Pos2%%0^^+
chr1#@!!~//=^%$73530&&*&127474697@Pos3%%0^^+
chr2#@!!~//=^%$17469&&*&127475864@Pos4%%0^^+
chr3#@!!~//=^%$12747&&*&127477031@Neg1%%0^^-
chr5#@!!~//=^%$17477&&*&127478198@Neg2%%0^^-
chr7#@!!~//=^%$74781&&*&127479365@Neg3%%0^^-
chr7#@!!~//=^%$74795&&*&127480532@Pos5%%0^^+
chr1#@!!~//=^%$12748&&*&127481699@Neg4%%0^^-


The cleaned data must be like this 



chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -


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  • try sed -E 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]+/ /g' file
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I have this genes database which completely messed up by extra non-alphanumeric values. This happened as a sort of encryption to the data which was made incorrectly, and I don't know how to clean it up. I tried sed and awk, but failed. This is sample of the data which is very large amount of documents



chr2#@!!~//=^%$74711&&*&127472363@Pos1%%0^^+
chr3#@!!~//=^%$74723&&*&127473530@Pos2%%0^^+
chr1#@!!~//=^%$73530&&*&127474697@Pos3%%0^^+
chr2#@!!~//=^%$17469&&*&127475864@Pos4%%0^^+
chr3#@!!~//=^%$12747&&*&127477031@Neg1%%0^^-
chr5#@!!~//=^%$17477&&*&127478198@Neg2%%0^^-
chr7#@!!~//=^%$74781&&*&127479365@Neg3%%0^^-
chr7#@!!~//=^%$74795&&*&127480532@Pos5%%0^^+
chr1#@!!~//=^%$12748&&*&127481699@Neg4%%0^^-


The cleaned data must be like this 



chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -


please help very big problem here!






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I have this genes database which completely messed up by extra non-alphanumeric values. This happened as a sort of encryption to the data which was made incorrectly, and I don't know how to clean it up. I tried sed and awk, but failed. This is sample of the data which is very large amount of documents



chr2#@!!~//=^%$74711&&*&127472363@Pos1%%0^^+
chr3#@!!~//=^%$74723&&*&127473530@Pos2%%0^^+
chr1#@!!~//=^%$73530&&*&127474697@Pos3%%0^^+
chr2#@!!~//=^%$17469&&*&127475864@Pos4%%0^^+
chr3#@!!~//=^%$12747&&*&127477031@Neg1%%0^^-
chr5#@!!~//=^%$17477&&*&127478198@Neg2%%0^^-
chr7#@!!~//=^%$74781&&*&127479365@Neg3%%0^^-
chr7#@!!~//=^%$74795&&*&127480532@Pos5%%0^^+
chr1#@!!~//=^%$12748&&*&127481699@Neg4%%0^^-


The cleaned data must be like this 



chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -


please help very big problem here!






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  • try sed -E 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]+/ /g' file
    – mosvy
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  • try sed -E 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]+/ /g' file
    – mosvy
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try sed -E 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]+/ /g' file
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try sed -E 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]+/ /g' file
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You can do it with sed. Something as follows:



sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]/ /g' file | column -tc2

chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -





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    THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you @goro i didn't know how to keep - and +
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With tr, transliterating characters from the complement of the wanted set to spaces, and squeezing repeats:



$ tr -sc '[:alnum:][:space:]+-' ' ' < data
chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -





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    You can do it with sed. Something as follows:



    sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]/ /g' file | column -tc2

    chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
    chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
    chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
    chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
    chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
    chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
    chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
    chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
    chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -





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      THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you @goro i didn't know how to keep - and +
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    You can do it with sed. Something as follows:



    sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]/ /g' file | column -tc2

    chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
    chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
    chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
    chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
    chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
    chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
    chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
    chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
    chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -





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      THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you @goro i didn't know how to keep - and +
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    You can do it with sed. Something as follows:



    sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]/ /g' file | column -tc2

    chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
    chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
    chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
    chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
    chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
    chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
    chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
    chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
    chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -





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    You can do it with sed. Something as follows:



    sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9+-]/ /g' file | column -tc2

    chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
    chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
    chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
    chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
    chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
    chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
    chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
    chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
    chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -






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    THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you @goro i didn't know how to keep - and +
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    THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you @goro i didn't know how to keep - and +
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    With tr, transliterating characters from the complement of the wanted set to spaces, and squeezing repeats:



    $ tr -sc '[:alnum:][:space:]+-' ' ' < data
    chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
    chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
    chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
    chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
    chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
    chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
    chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
    chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
    chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -





    share|improve this answer


























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      With tr, transliterating characters from the complement of the wanted set to spaces, and squeezing repeats:



      $ tr -sc '[:alnum:][:space:]+-' ' ' < data
      chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
      chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
      chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
      chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
      chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
      chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
      chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
      chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
      chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -





      share|improve this answer
























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        With tr, transliterating characters from the complement of the wanted set to spaces, and squeezing repeats:



        $ tr -sc '[:alnum:][:space:]+-' ' ' < data
        chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
        chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
        chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
        chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
        chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
        chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
        chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
        chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
        chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -





        share|improve this answer














        With tr, transliterating characters from the complement of the wanted set to spaces, and squeezing repeats:



        $ tr -sc '[:alnum:][:space:]+-' ' ' < data
        chr2 74711 127472363 Pos1 0 +
        chr3 74723 127473530 Pos2 0 +
        chr1 73530 127474697 Pos3 0 +
        chr2 17469 127475864 Pos4 0 +
        chr3 12747 127477031 Neg1 0 -
        chr5 17477 127478198 Neg2 0 -
        chr7 74781 127479365 Neg3 0 -
        chr7 74795 127480532 Pos5 0 +
        chr1 12748 127481699 Neg4 0 -






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