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Markus
Markus

Reputation: 121

Sorting terms on one line in tab delimted text file

My file contains a number of lines all of which contain a tab delimited sequence of terms. I would like to sort these tab delimited terms alphabetically within each line using the 'sort' command but seem to be unable to do it.

Thanks for your help

Markus

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 25

Answers (2)

JuniorCompressor
JuniorCompressor

Reputation: 20025

You could use awk to sort the fields of each row:

awk '{split($0,a);asort(a);for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)$i=a[i];print}' a.txt

Upvotes: 1

backtrack
backtrack

Reputation: 8154

per_row = []

infile = open('Myfile.txt', 'r')

for line in infile:
    per_row.append(line.split('\t'))


sorted = [x for x in sorted(infile)]

print (sorted)

above is a python code to sort the file

Upvotes: 0

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