STRSPLITCOL - winkusch/Easy2 GitHub Wiki

Splits each column entry according to a defined character string and creates a new column containing only the i th result of the string spit.

FUNCTION	PARAMETER	DEFAULT	DESCRIPTION
STRSPLITCOL	--colSplit		column used for split
STRSPLITCOL	--strSplit		string on which th einput will be split
STRSPLITCOL	--numSplitIdx	-1
STRSPLITCOL	--colOut	NewCol	Name of the added column.

Say column colSplit equals array c(“chr1_111”, “chr2_222”):

• With “--strSplit _“ and “--numSplitIdx 1”, the new column c(“chr1”,”chr2”) will be created
• With “--strSplit _“ and “--numSplitIdx 2”, the new column c(“111”,”222”) will be created

Example (to obtain "chr" from "chr:pos"):
STRSPLITCOL --colSplit chrpos --strSplit : --numSplitIdx 1 --colOut chr