pastetable - join starbase data tables by row number

SYNOPSYS

        pastetable table1 table2 [tableN] ...

pastetable joins all of the tables on its command line by row number.

When two or more tables are joined together there is the possibility that the column header names for two column will clash. In this case the column names are appended with "_n" where n is the table number for the column source.

Here is an example with jointable. The two input files each have a column named X and a column named Y. The join column also apears in each table but it is only output once so renaming is not necessary. The X and Y columns are renamed to X_1, Y_1 and X_2, Y_2.

        john@panic: jointable -j Name objs.tab coords.tab
        Name    X_1     Y_1     X_2     Y_2
        ----    ---     ---     ---     ---
        ...

Paste a small table to itself

    john@panic : pastetable tab tab
    X_1     Y_1     Z_1     X_2     Y_2     Z_2
    ---     ---     ---     ---     ---     ---
    1       3       4       1       3       4
    8       9       0       8       9       0

• jointable - join two starbase data tables on matching key columns.
• cprodtable - compute the cartesian product of a list of input tables.

• index - index a starbase data table.
• search - search a starbase data table using an index.

• starbase.1 starbase data table introduction.
• starbase.3 starbase data table C library.
• starbase.5 starbase data table file format.