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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+# Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Martin A. Hansen.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+# http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+
+# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+
+# This program is part of the Biopieces framework (www.biopieces.org).
+
+# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DESCRIPTION <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+
+# Clip sequences in the stream based on soft masked sequence.
+
+# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+
+
+require 'biopieces'
+
+casts = []
+
+bp = Biopieces.new
+
+options = bp.parse(ARGV, casts)
+
+bp.each_record do |record|
+ if record.has_key? :SEQ
+ trim_beg = 0
+ trim_end = record[:SEQ].length
+
+ record[:SEQ] =~ /[^a-z]/
+
+ trim_beg = $`.length
+
+ record[:SEQ] =~ /[a-z]+$/
+ trim_end = $`.length
+
+ record[:SEQ] = record[:SEQ][trim_beg ... trim_end]
+ record[:SEQ_LEN] = record[:SEQ].length
+ record[:SCORES] = record[:SCORES][trim_beg ... trim_end] if record.has_key? :SCORES
+ end
+
+ bp.puts record
+end
+
+
+# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+
+
+__END__