Merge Duplicates by rows

This software merges rows with the same first columns in the same line. The tables have to fit in RAM. Empty cells are appended to each rows in order to obtain the same number of columns. Rows order is changed after processing.

Manual :

1- if not already installed, install Perl free programming language

2- unzip the software

3- copy your data txt or csv files in the “data” directory.

4- execute the software by the command : perl software_name

by defaut the software will use the first line of the table as header. If the first line of table is not the columns names, use "0" as argument

example :

perl merge_duplicate_by_rows_0.1.pl # use the first row as argument

perl merge_duplicate_by_rows_0.1.pl 0 # process the first row

5- processed files are in the “results” directory.