Uniq in awk; removing duplicate values in a column using awk
- by D W
I have a large datafile in the following format below:
ENST00000371026 WDR78,WDR78,WDR78, WD repeat domain 78 isoform 1,WD repeat domain 78 isoform 1,WD repeat domain 78 isoform 2,
ENST00000371023 WDR32 WD repeat domain 32 isoform 2
ENST00000400908 RERE,KIAA0458, atrophin-1 like protein isoform a,Homo sapiens mRNA for KIAA0458 protein, partial cds.,
The columns are tab separated. Multiple values within columns are comma separated. I would like to remove the duplicate values in the second column to result in something like this:
ENST00000371026 WDR78 WD repeat domain 78 isoform 1,WD repeat domain 78 isoform 1,WD repeat domain 78 isoform 2,
ENST00000371023 WDR32 WD repeat domain 32 isoform 2
ENST00000400908 RERE,KIAA0458 atrophin-1 like protein isoform a,Homo sapiens mRNA for KIAA0458 protein, partial cds.,
I tried the following code below but it doesn't seem to remove the duplicate values.
awk '
BEGIN { FS="\t" } ;
{
split($2, valueArray,",");
j=0;
for (i in valueArray)
{
if (!( valueArray[i] in duplicateArray))
{
duplicateArray[j] = valueArray[i];
j++;
}
};
printf $1 "\t";
for (j in duplicateArray)
{
if (duplicateArray[j]) {
printf duplicateArray[j] ",";
}
}
printf "\t";
print $3
}' knownGeneFromUCSC.txt
How can I remove the duplicates in column 2 correctly?
